Asterisk

What is Asterisk?

Asterisk is a powerful open-source communications software development framework that enables enterprises to build a wide range of voice, video, and text-based applications. The software provides a comprehensive set of pre-built components that handle the complex, low-level details of communications, allowing developers to create custom solutions and innovative products. Asterisk supports both cloud-based and on-premises deployments, offering a flexible solution for businesses of all sizes. The software seamlessly integrates with legacy communication systems and VoIP, providing a unified platform for managing business phones, PBX, SIP trunking, and more

Highlights

• Robust PBX functionality: Asterisk offers a full suite of PBX features, including call recording, call routing, call waiting, caller ID blocking, blacklists, authentication, and conference bridging
• Advanced communication capabilities: The software supports SMS messaging, trunking, transcoding, text-to-speech conversion, interactive voice response, and flexible extension logic
• Scalable and modular design: Asterisk can be scaled to accommodate the needs of small, mid-size, and large organizations, and its modular architecture allows for the integration of physically separate installations
• Broad protocol support: Asterisk follows both VoIP protocols (UNIStim, Google Talk, IAX, Jingle/XMPP, SIP, MGCP, SCCP) and traditional telephony protocols (FXS, FXO, Loopstart, Kewlstart, E&M).