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Hello everybody, please note that the date of our June MeetUp has changed from 6/7 to Thursday 6/14. On Thursday we'll be presenting and playing with the latest product from Digium, their Asterisk Appliance. Though not available for purchase yet, we've managed to get our hands on a beta version that looks great.

Please RSVP and plan on joining us for another lively examination of all things Asterisk. Should you have any questions about the meeting room's location, duck into the FedEd/Kinkos at 16 East 52nd street and ask them to direct you to the teleconferencing rooms.

Please join us next Thursday night for April's NYC Asterisk Meetup.

This month we'll be taking a closer look at business grade connections to the PSTN and the evolution of the SIP/IAX termination space. Joining us will be John Riordan of Junction Networks who will discuss Junction's existing offerings and how they see the marketplace evolving. Junction has significant experience interfacing with commercial Asterisk deployments and John has a raft of personal expertise which is bound to make for an excellent discussion.

Please RSVP and plan on joining us next Thursday evening for another lively examination of all things Asterisk. Should you have any questions about the meeting room's location, duck into the FedEd/Kinkos at 16 East 52nd street and ask them to direct you to the teleconferencing rooms.

See you next Thursday,
-birch

John Riordan:
Mr. Riordan is a technology industry pioneer with extensive breadth and depth of technical knowledge and experience. He has held technology leadership positions throughout his career in areas ranging from telecommunications to software development for financial markets statistical analysis. He is a successful entrepreneur, having founded and built one of the first and largest ISPs in the mid-1990s.

Mr. Riordan co-founded Interport Communications, one of the first Internet Service Providers in the northeast. At Interport, Mr. Riordan established the technical direction of the company's products and services and managed the technology efforts. He was instrumental in the development of Interport's technology infrastructure which served its dialup, web hosting and dedicated line customers. After profitably growing the business to the one of the largest ISPs in the northeast, Interport Communications was purchased by RCN in 1998.

At RCN, Mr. Riordan took over the Internet Engineering group as a result of the acquisition of Interport. There, he led a team of 150 engineers and technical staff. He also continued to shape the strategy of RCN's">RCN's Internet business.

Mr. Riordan received his B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Howdy and welcome back to another installment of the NYC Asterisk meetup. January's turnout was pretty dismal and I seriously hope that we can get both a better showing this month and a more realistic accounting of RSVPs.

February's meeting will be focused on the significant changes afoot at Digium and what the ramifications are likely to be on Asterisk and the marketplace. For those of you who didn't catch it - Digium "announced yesterday announced key executive appointments including Danny J. Windham, former President, COO and Director of ADTRAN joining Digium as its CEO. Additional executive developments include naming Steve Harvey, former VP of Channel Sales and Competitive Service Providers for ADTRAN, to VP of Worldwide Sales for Digium. Mark Spencer, founder and formerly President of Digium was named to the newly created position of Chairman and CTO." http://www.digium.com/en/mediacenter/news/viewpress.php?id=digium_CEO

As some of you are aware, in addition to our work with Digium/Asterisk, SpecialAI has a deep history of working with ADTRAN and count them as one of our best longstanding cutomers. We're, frankly, very interested in what this reshuffling will yield.

Please RSVP and plan on joining us next Thursday evening for another lively discussion of all things Asterisk.
Thanks,
-birch

An Asterisk system only performs as well as the network that it runs on. In addition to our standard introductions and discussion, tonight's October Asterisk Meetup will include the first in a series of presentations focusing on "Fundamentals of Converged IP Network Design with Open Source".

Please join us tonight for what is sure to be another interesting installment of our monthly NYC Asterisk Meetup.