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What is Asterisk?

Asterisk - The Open Source PBXAsterisk is a complete PBX in software originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium, Inc. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more.

 

Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols such as SIP, IAX, H323, etc..

Asterisk can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.

Asterisk supports variety of codecs such as ulaw,alaw,g729,gsm,speex,ilbc,lpc10 and many more.

It has support for three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, SIP and H.323 (as both client and gateway).

 
   
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