Wednesday 18th June 2008
C/C++ Software Developer Opportunities are available now!
Voicetronix is seeking experienced C/C++ software developers to join its R&D team to work on fixed line & IP telephony solutions. This is a multi-facet role, involving R&D, software development and technical support activities associated with the global distribution of our telephony products.

Skills sought include:

• Strong C/C++ development ability under Linux.
• Self starter with the ability to produce efficient designs and robust software.
• Ability to diagnose and fix problems in existing implementations.
• Previous development with ISDN, SIP/RTP communication protocols is highly desired.
• Exposure to HTML, Web GUI development would be an advantage.
• Familiarity with Perl, Apache and open source databases.

Expressions of interest should be forwarded to us here.

Wednesday 21th November 2007
The OpenSwitch series to be discontinued by the end of 2007!
Voicetronix will cease manufacturing and selling the OpenSwitch series hardware by the end of 2007. For existing customers, the latest hardware driver is vpb driver 4.2 and some support will be available to registered customers on subscription based support packages. For more information contact sales. Voicetronix recommends the new OpenPCI series for any new telephony application development or installation.

Monday 13th August 2007
Release of the Voicetronix Failover Box provides redundancy against power/system failure in PBX applications that use commodity PC hardware!
Voicetronix is pleased to announce the release of its Failover Box. It provides PC based PBX applications, such as Asterisk and OpenPBX, with a controlled way of failing over to trunk lines in circumstances where there is a power or computer system failure. The Failover Box has been designed to support our OpenPCI-8LS series hardware but can be used with other vendors' telephony PCI cards. So you don't have to use our hardware to take advantage of its features. For more information please check our openpci page or contact sales.

Friday 10th August 2007
Release of vpb-driver 4.2 Stable & CT Server 3.18 for Voicetronix hardware!
Voicetronix is pleased to release vpb-driver 4.2 support for its OpenPCI, OpenSwitch12, OpenLine4, OpenLog4 and OpenPri series PCI cards. This driver works with CT Server 3.18. For more details on new functionality and supported Linux kernels, please go to our downloads page.

Wednesday 27th December 2006
Release of vpb-driver-4.0 Stable for Voicetronix hardware!
Voicetronix is pleased to release vpb-driver4.0 support for its OpenPCI, OpenSwitch12, OpenLine4, OpenLog4 and OpenPri (Hi-Z mode) cards. OpenPri (Standard mode) cards still need to use vpbdriver3.1beta19. Please see our downloads page for more information.

Thursday 15th June 2006
OpenPCI cards attain Malaysian regulatory approval!
Voicetronix is pleased to announce that its OpenPCI cards have been approved for use in Malaysia. Contact Ntegrator, our sales representatives in Malaysia for more information.

Thursday 23rd March 2006
OpenPCI cards attain regulatory approval!
Voicetronix is pleased to announce that its OpenPCI cards have passed the regulatory authority requirements for use in Australia, USA and New Zealand.

Tuesday 14 February 2006
VPB Driver 3.1 beta 6 with support for OpenPCI FXS and Logging released.
We have now added support for our FXS module, and call logging using the FXO module. Please see our downloads page for more information.

Tuesday 6 December 2005
VPB Driver 3.1 with support for OpenPCI released.
This release contains initial support for our OpenPCI card, and includes a new kernel driver structure designed to integrate our different cards more closely. This initial release has only been tested on RedHat9.0, using applications CTServer-3.0 and Asterisk-1.2.0. Please see our downloads page for more information.

Thursday 1 December 2005
VPB Driver 3.0 and CT Server - OpenPBX 3.0 Full releases.
After many months of beta testing, and running it on a few sites, we are happy to release the latest driver in a full version. There are very little changes since the last release, please see our downloads page for more information.

Tuesday 18 October 2005
New Asterisk Compatible OpenPCI series released!
Voicetronix is proud to announce the release of its latest series of analogue multiport CT hardware, the OpenPCI series. The hardware platform supports 4 or 8 FXO, FXS and High impedance ports all on a single PCI card. Support of Asterisk allows customers to build higher density PBX solutions interfacing to POTS. For more information, please visit our OpenPCI web page.

Monday 17 October 2005
OpenPri Supports Asterisk!
Voicetronix is proud to announce that our OpenPri series of E1/T1 hardware support Asterisk, a leading open source IP-PBX application. This was made possible through the use of Sangoma's wanpipe architecture. For more information on how to set up Asterisk using the OpenPri cards please visit our OpenPRI web page.

Monday 29 August 2005
OpenPri (Dual) card supports Logger
Voicetronix is proud to announce the release of the latest revision of the Logger application now supporting our OpenPri-Dual PCI card. This is the culmination of the work undertaken at driver level and to CT Server (our own Perl middleware for our CT hardware) to operate the OpenPri dual card in Call Logging/montoring/recording mode. Now our customers can build commercial grade high density (primary rate line) call recording systems using our OpenPri cards and our Logger application.

Thursday 26 May 2005
Update of VPB Driver 3.0 and CT Server/OpenPBX
CT Server had now been modified to work with the new VPB Driver 3.0. OpenPBX has been updated to understand the OpenPri cards. A few bugs where also fixed in the new driver.

Friday 13 May 2005
The OpenPri series of E1/T1 PCI cards are now available for purchase!
Voicetronix is proud to announce the release of the OpenPri series of E1/T1 PCI cards. Both single and dual span configurable E1/T1 PCI cards are available for purchase now! Build your own high density digital Computer Telephony application using our supported open source applications.
For more information, please visit our OpenPri web page.

Friday 13 May 2005
Brand new VPB Driver 3.0 released.
This release is actually being called a beta as it has yet to be used in production, but it also has a lot of new features. The new driver supports our new OpenPri cards. It will also be able to use all of our cards at the same time, so you can mix OpenSwitch cards with OpenLine cards and OpenPri cards.
For more information, please visit our downloads web page.

Monday 21 March 2005
Adelaide office is moving!
UPDATE The moving day has been pushed to Wednesday the 30th of March as the new office will not be ready. The Adelaide office will be un-manned on Tuesday the 29th, as all the furniture would have moved on Monday the 28th. We should all be back to normal by Monday the 4th of April!
The Adelaide office is moving location on the 29th of March.There will be an interruption to our presence on the Internet for a couple of hours during the move.Our phones in Adelaide will also be down for the same period, but the numbers will not be changing.
The new address will be:
VoiceTronix
Office 214
54 Currie St
Adelaide

Thursday 10 March 2005
OpenPBX Version 2.5 released
This release has quite a few new features and some bug fixes. Please visit our downloads web page for more information.

Friday 11 February 2005
Telephony courses using Voicetronix hardware
Learning Streams, a division of DB Streams is conducting interactive workshops on writing applications using Voicetronix hardware. Please visit Learning Streams for more information.

Wednesday 3 November 2004
VPB Driver 2.4.0 released
The new release has now been tested to work under the 2.6.x Linux kernel series. Please visit our downloads web page for more information.

Wednesday 13 October 2004
Updated CT Server and OpenPBX released.
Just released CT Server and OpenPBX 2.4. This release has quite a few new features and some bug fixes. Please visit our downloads web page for more information.

Friday 17 September 2004
Voicedigit releases VoiceX-Studio!
VoiceX-Studio is a windows based computer telephony development visual toolkit for the OpenLine4 card. It enables new users to telephony to quickly create powerful voice services through an intuitive drag and drop CTI building block methodology. Expert developers can also use the toolkit as it provides integration with VXML, SQL, PHP, SAPI 5 as well as our very own CT server. Voicetronix is proud to be associated with the developers of VoiceX-Studio. For more information on VoiceX-Studio and its applications please click here.

Monday 30 August 2004
Sydney Office has moved!
The Sydney office has moved premises, and now has new phone numbers. The old phone numbers will be diverted to the new ones for about 6 months. There is no need to change the Voicetronix postal address as the Adelaide office hasn't moved. For full details please check out our contacts page.

Wedneday 25 August 2004
Beta driver for Linux kernel 2.6.x series released for testing!
We have just recently got the new driver working under a 2.6.x kernel. This hasnt been fully tested under 2.6.x kernels. We have done the basic testing of loading the module and making sure that some of our unit test applications run (such as echo and measerl). We have noticed that the echo cancellor for the OpenSwitch12 cards is not working all that well under 2.6.x (still working nicely under 2.4.x though!). We will be doing some more work on the driver as time permits. Mean while you can grab is from here!

Thursday 19 August 2004
Driver updates, version 2.3.2 released.
There have been some minor bug fixes made, including another fix for the .so module. Most importantly, we have built the Windows driver again. Please see our downloads page for more information.

Friday 13 August 2004
Asterisk updates, available from our site!
I have fixed a couple of major bugs in the Voicetronix channel driver for Asterisk. These include channels locking up on hangup, and half-duplex audio when a called is not Answer()'ed before a Dial(). This fix is not currently available in the CVS due some unresolved issues with the current head CVS version and the version from the 5th of August that my fix was based on.
You can grab it from our Downloads page.

Wednesday 14 July 2004
Updates! VPB driver 2.3.1 released
This is essentially a bug fix release. It was noticed that the kernel FIFOs where dropping data which showed its self up in many ways. These included drop out in recordings (specificly noticed in Caller ID), and incorrect loop-drop detection.

Friday 18 June 2004
Updates! VPB driver and CTServer/OpenPBX
The OpenSwitch driver just released has improved SMP support. It can also support multiple OpenSwitch cards. There have been some changes to how OpenPBX works its channel status detection, which has resolved a confused channel issue that was emerging on busy sites.

We have also updated both VPB Driver and CTServer to work under FreeBSD!

For more information on the updates to these packages please see our Downloads page.

Tuesday 11 May 2004
Australian (ACA) approval for the OpenSwitch family!
Voicetronix is pleased to announce that its OpenSwitch12 & OpenSwitch6 cards have passed the regulatory authority requirements for use in Australia. We are also pleased to announce that the OpenSwitch6 card has also been approved for use in the US.

Tuesday 24 January 2004
Lots of updates! VPB driver, logger and ctserver!
After a longer than expected gestation period, we are releasing a whole heap of updates.

• VPB Driver 2.2.35 includes numerous minor bug fixes, support for the Line Voltage detection and a much improved Tone trainer.
• Logger 0.64 has been confirmed to compile and run well on RedHat9.0 (with the latest vpb-driver).
• CTServer 2.2 has some added functionality, mostly for the OpenPBX. This includes call parking (for on-hold), Call Data recording and an agent based automatic call distribution.

Thursday 12 February 2004
Small Office PBX kits starting from US$1195!
Build your own 4 x 8 office phone system using our DIY kit! All you need is a PC running Linux, some analogue handsets and our DIY kit. The kit consists of:

• an OpenSwitch12 card.
• 3 x break out boxes for ease of connection to your trunk and extension points.
• OpenPBX software, OpenSwitch12 drivers and intallation and user information all on a CD.

Contact Sales for product and purchasing information if you are:

• small business that needs a sophisticated phone system without the price tag associated with it.
• IT or telephony consultant or solution provider who wishes to gain an additional revenue stream by supplying, customising and installing PC based phone systems into their client base.
• OEMS who wish to integrate small office PBX functionality into their product offering.

Friday 5 December 2003
Improved On-hook/Off-hook voltage detection hardware on the OpenLog4 card!
Users of the OpenLog4 card now have available a more robust triggering method of recording calls with the release of the new voltage detection module. This is available as a daughter board enabling current OpenLog4 cards in the field to be upgraded easily. Contact Sales for more information.

Monday 11 November 2003
OpenPBX Bootable CD and PABX/PBX Software Upgrade Released
Voicetronix is proud to announce that Release 2.1 of OpenPBX is now available for download from our web site. More importantly it is also available on a bootable CD. Just place it in your PC's CD-ROM drive and power up. OpenPBX will run without an operating system installed! New features include fully functioning web interface for Administration, User configuration, Voicemail access, Click to Dial phone book, PBX monitoring and lots more. OpenPBX is open source, and very easy to customise. It has an easy to use Web based administration and user interface, and is very simple to install and operate. Advanced features include trunk-trunk transfers and unified messaging.

Monday 3 November 2003
OpenLine4 price specials for developers
Voicetronix is offering developer specials on the OpenLine4 card. Prices start from US$550. For quantity purchases the prices are even lower. Contact your nearest distributor for more information [Purchasing...].

Tuesday 23 September 2003
OpenPBX PABX/PBX Software Upgrade Released
Voicetronix is proud to announce that Release 2 of OpenPBX is now available for download from our web site. New features include Voicemail, Auto-Attendant and support for Caller ID telephones. OpenPBX is open source, and very easy to customise. It has an easy to use Web based administration and user interface, and is very simple to install and operate. Advanced features include trunk-trunk transfers and unified messaging.

Monday 22 September 2003
Voicetronix resellers at FALL 2003 VON Expo
Cylogistics, a Voicetronix reseller in the US, will be exhibiting at the Fall 2003 VON expo being held in Boston, Massachusetts from September 22-25th. Come and preview OpenPBX and our other CT product hardware.

Tuesday 26 August 2003
DB Streams releases Voicer
Voicer is an easy to use multi channel voice processing platform running on Linux and supported by the OpenLine4 card from Voicetonix. It offers a powerful environment for telephone network features such as, outbound messaging, IVR, application generation, conferencing, call processing, and data management.

Friday 8 August 2003
New Windows Installer and Demo Application
Using a slick Windows installer, you can have the driver and a demo application installed in minutes. The demo application can test out the basic fucntionality of your new OpenLine4 board.

Friday 20 June 2003
OpenSwitch PC-PBX cards now support echo cancellation
The new driver release supporting this feature will be available for downloading early next week. This feature upgrade enables the OpenSwitch PC-PBX cards to be utilised in VoIP applications.

Tuesday 20 May 2003
Voicetronix is a state finalist in the Telstra and Australian Government sponsored Small Business Awards!
These awards showcase and recognise Australian small businesses and the role they play in the Australian economy. They salute the success of these businesses and promote their achievements to the wider community. The awards are open to organisations up to 100 employees.

Monday 14 April 2003
Voicetronix is launching OpenPBX at Cebit 2003 in Sydney, Australia.

We will be exhibiting on Wednesday, 7th May 2003, as part of the AIIA Software Showcase. OpenPBX is an open source PBX application based on CT server and supports the OpenSwitch family of cards. Stay tuned for more information on OpenPBX in the coming weeks leading to the show! For a demo of the web interface click the ringing phone!

Wednesday 15 March 2003
Voicetronix Announce Mailing list has arrived!
To join the Voicetronix Announce Mailing list just send an email to:
voicetronix-announce-subscribe@voicetronix.com.au
You will then get notified about driver upgrades, new products and any other Voicetronix News!

Monday 24 February 2003
OpenSwitch12 PC-PBX Card supports conferencing.
The latest release of the OpenSwitch driver now supports multi-party conferencing. Currently it supports up to 10 conferences each with up to 10 people. We will soon be adding support for conferencing across boards.

Wednesday 19 February 2003
Tone trainer application released in latest driver.
Ever had problems working out the parameters for that dial tone? Tone trainer can help you! It takes an audio file that you have collected using the system and then can produce the information in 3 different formats, depending on how you want to use it!

Friday 17 January 2003
Voicetronix OpenBox Finalist in LinuxWorld Open Source Product Excellence Awards

IDG World Expo today announced finalists for the LinuxWorld Open Source Product Excellence Awards, to be presented at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week. Sponsored by OSDN and presented in conjunction with the UniForum Association, the Open Source Product Excellence Awards recognize Open Source product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors.

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will take place January 21-24, 2003 at New York City's Javits Center. The Open Source Product Excellence Awards will be presented in a ceremony held on the LinuxWorld show floor on Wednesday, January 22 at 4:30 p.m.

The Open Source Product Excellence Awards are divided into ten product categories, representing major areas of innovation in the Linux and Open Source community. The Voicetronix OpenBox was one of the 6 finalists in the Best System Integration Software category. Other finalists include IBM and Microsoft.