Tell Me About Asterisk

What is Asterisk?

Asterisk is built by and for telecom developers and launched by Digium. Asterisk transforms commodity computers into powerful communications servers. It is free but requires programming expertise. Digium said it best when they said that Asterisk could be thought of as an engine.

Asterisk serves as the engine that makes your real-time voice communication product operate. It is an Open Source toolkit that drastically simplifies the process of building communications applications and is the foundation for application developers and system administrators to assemble communications solutions with ease and speed.

This includes, but is not limited to, IP PBX Systems, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Servers, voice messaging platforms, and Automatic Call Distributors (ACD). Asterisk includes a broad range of building block modules that handle the low-level details of telecommunications, leaving the developer free to concentrate on business logic.

This Open Source project started over a decade ago, and already more than 65,000 developers and integrators have refined and utilized the flexibility of this real-time IP-based operating system.

Is Asterisk Right for You?

Asterisk’s robust communication engine includes support for virtually every communications protocol in use today and offers unparalleled flexibility. If you are developing a project, product, or solution that calls for real-time voice communications, then Asterisk is the answer for your business. To get the most out of Asterisk, you’ll want a solid understanding of:

  • Linux Systems Administration
  • Telecommunications
  • TCP/IP Networking
  • Script Programming

If a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is not considered a necessity for you, Asterisk just may be the product of your dreams and is a free download from Digium. Asterisk application developers can write a huge variety of IP Telephony applications from their components. It handles all of the low-level details of initiating, maintaining, and manipulating real-time media streams (calls) between endpoints (phones).

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