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Cape Town to respond to disasters using Asterisk by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2006-02-07 01:10 PM

An emergency management centre in Cape Town, South Africa will soon be using open source VOIP telephony to deal with and respond to disasters in the region. Cape Town-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) gurus, Connection-Telecom, recently implemented an Asterisk solution at the Provincial Emergency Management Centre based at Tygerberg Hospital.