BluegrassNet Voice, Inc. is a full-service VOIP Service Provider. This means that we not only sell VOIP lines, but we also sell, build, and maintain Asterisk based PBX telephone systems for businesses throughout the United States.

We have been active participants in the open source software development community for many years. We have been active proponents of the various opensource versions of UNIX including BSD, Fedora, CentOS, as well as heavy users of applications such as the SendMail / PostFix email servers, and Apache Web Servers.

Our latest open source foray, with a software called Asterisk, is very promising as well. Asterisk is an open source PBX (VOIP) telephone system. What does this mean? Asterisk could be compared to professional phone systems like Nortel, Lucent and Cisco that normally cost a customer a pretty penny to implement. The difference with Asterisk is that it is opensource, in other words: no charge for the software, runs on affordable servers, and can realistically deliver phone systems at ¼ - 1/3 the price of an enterprise telecom solution. The Asterisk system is feature rich and can scale from one user to one thousand users with the proper configuration and reliable hardware.

BluegrassNet Voice is currently using Asterisk in three different ways:

1. As a core switching mechanism to deliver low-cost telephone lines to companies that would like to stick with their existing telephone systems.

2. As a “virtual” telephone system that can be “shared” by many different businesses and users. In this case, the customer simply needs a broadband Internet connection to connect back to BluegrassNet Voice's public Asterisk server, and VOIP telephone handsets.

3. As a complete, on-location PBX telephone system, comparable to an Intertel, Cisco, or even Nortel Enterprise system.

The Asterisk system can be customized in any way the company needs. It is mobile and can be moved quickly. It also is a great component to a system where redundancy and emergency fail-over are required. The fact that open source software can run reliable, large-scale telephone systems on an IP network is a testament to the flexibility of the Internet. The integration of open source software, off-the-shelf hardware, and low-cost networks (the Internet) are leading to the next ripple of Internet technology. The cost of telephone systems is where you will see this manifest.

For More Information Contact:

BluegrassNet Voice, Inc.
321 East Breckinridge Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Telephone: 502-589-4638