Talking with Mark Warren, CEO of Redfone Communications

Executive Editor, IP Communications Group Mark Warren is the CEO of Redfone Communications, LLC (www.red-fone.com), a company that has brought high availability to the world of Asterisk -based, Linux-powered, open source Voice-over-IP. Prior to Redfone, Warren was Technology Manager at the Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Holdings, from 1997 to 2005. Previously, he ran International Operations for the TV Guide Channel (1995 to 1997). He had worked for the Prevue Channel, which was acquired by TV Guide. RG: Admittedly, just using the terms “open source telephony” and “fault tolerance” in the same sentence is pretty mind-boggling. Why did you bestow such technology on the humble world of open source? MW: We – Redfone’s founders – had used Digium’s Asterisk-based VoIP technology in our previous avionics business. Surely anything... [read full story]