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2026 October: Two critical PHP bugs

On 21 October 2026 the PHP project released fixes for two critical bugs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. PHP scored each one CVSS 9.2. On a...
Mindaugas Kezys
4 min read

High Asterisk CPU: find the cause before a restart

Asterisk at 150% or 250% feels like the server is finished. On a host with several cores, that number can be one or two...
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14 min read

Introducing Italian, Ukrainian, and Spanish on Kolmisoft.com

Read Kolmisoft.com in English, Italian, Ukrainian, or Spanish. Choose your language on the homepage, then explore softswitches, pricing, and contact pages the way you...
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2 min read

Call-center traffic on a softswitch: what operators need

Office PBX traffic and call-center traffic both travel over SIP. That is where the similarity ends. A predictive dialer can fire more attempts in...
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5 min read

When your voice business needs more than 1,000 CPS

A wholesale carrier adds a fast-growing originator. A provider that serves outbound call centres takes on more dialling traffic. Several campaigns hit their busiest...
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5 min read

How we lost our largest client

We lost our largest client. This is what happened, what we got wrong, and what we are changing. They were a fast-growing wholesale operator...
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3 min read

Why carriers regret writing their own billing

You already have Asterisk. You have a few scripts that rate CDRs overnight. Prepaid works for the customers you have today. A commercial softswitch...
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7 min read

Which dialer customer burned your CPS route

You carry call-centre and dialer traffic for several customers on the same US or UK termination. One campaign opens at 09:00. Setup attempts spike....
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4 min read

White-label hosted PBX: one invoice for many resellers

You sell hosted PBX or UCaaS through partners. Each partner wants their logo, their rates, and their own customers. If every customer sits on...
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6 min read