Asterisk

What is Asterisk

Asterisk is the world’s leading open source telephony solution, it is the core of all the solutions OCM provide.

Asterisk is released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and it is available for download free of charge. Asterisk is the most popular open source software available, with the Asterisk Community being the top influencer in VoIP.

Asterisk was created by Mark Spencer of Digium, Inc in 1999. Code has been contributed from open source coders around the world.

Asterisk as a Phone System
Asterisk can be configured as the core of an IP or traditional phone system and connect callers all over the world.
Asterisk runs on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris and provides all you would expect from a high end expensive phone system.

Asterisk Features
The feature list of an Asterisk based phone system will put high end systems to shame and is under constant development. The beauty of Asterisk is that even if the feature you are looking for is not present we can write the code and add it! In addition, there are thousands of bolt on solutions available.

Common features include (and are by no means limited to) :-

    Blacklist
    Blind transfer
    Call recording
    Call waiting
    Conference calling
    Distinctive ring
    Do Not Disturb
    Predictive dialler
    Overhead paging/ Intercom
    Remote office  support
    Roaming Extensions
    Supervised transfer
    Three way calling
    Voicemail to email

Asterisk in the call centre
Asterisk has been adopted by call centres around the world based on its flexibility and rapid return on investment.

Asterisk everywhere
Asterisk has become the basis for thousands of communications solutions. If you need to communicate, Asterisk is your answer.