The thing you see here is what Digium’s new Asterisk appliance will look like, news bite courtesy of Alec.  Here’s the deets from Digium:

The Asterisk Appliance is a standalone embedded PBX. Targeted for small to medium businesses (2-50 users), and remote branch offices of larger organizations (2-50 users per site), the Digium Asterisk Appliance will feature the first Digium-developed Asterisk GUI framework. The Digium GUI framework provides simple, easy-to-use, basic configuration capabilities for open source developers to differentiate and customize their Asterisk-based solutions and applications. The Asterisk Appliance will also offer a hybrid solution alternative (a combination of VoIP applications using legacy telecom equipment) for enterprise customers who are not yet ready to migrate to a complete VoIP solution.

I could probably sell 5 of these tomorrow, if they were available now. It will be interesting to see how Digium’s in-house-developed GUI will look, and interesting to know if it is open source or not.