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Asterisk - Telephony system

Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It does voice over IP in three protocols, and interoperates with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response, and Call Queueing. It also supports three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, MGCP, SIP and H.323 (as both client and gateway).

The system needs no additional hardware for Voice over IP. Asterisk connects with digital and analog telephony equipment through a number of hardware devices, including that manufactured by Asterisk's sponsors, Digium. Digium has single and quad span T1 and E1 interfaces for interconnection to PRI lines and channel banks. An analog FXO card is available, and more analog interfaces are pending.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.asterisk.org/
Source tarball ftp://ftp.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.0-RC1.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.asterisk.org/index.php?menu=download
Version 1.0.0-RC1 (stable) released on 2004-07-17
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=documentation
Support contacts

Announce List<asterisk-announce@lists.digium.com> http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=mailing_list
Help List<asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=mailing_list
Developer List<asterisk-dev@lists.digium.com> http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=mailing_list
SupportTechnical support, consulting, and customization available from Digium, Inc. (http://www.digium.com/)

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Sponsors
  • Digium, Inc. (http://www.digium.com/)

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.digium.com:/usr/cvsroot login password: anon checkout zaptel zapata libpri asterisk gastman
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Use requirementsLinux kernel 2.4.x or later
Build prerequisitesopenssl, Linux Kernel Sources
Weak prerequisiteslibpri (for T1 or E1 interfaces)
Related programsBayonne

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-02-14
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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