Headquarters: Calgary, Alberta Aksys' KONNECT Office Phone System copped a best of show award ... and it's an active supporter of Asterisk and other open-source-based PBX deployments.

and Skype on Tuesday partnered up to enable free and low-cost Skype calling and other Skype functionality via any Asterisk-based PBX. Digium said the Skype for Asterisk software natively encrypts ...