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What is Asterisk?

April 26, 2017Asterisk

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What is Asterisk?

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In the same way that Linux is an open-source computer operating system, Asterisk is an open-source IP PBX. Like Linux, Asterisk has an enthusiastic developer community committed to improving it. It is available on a large number of platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris. Asterisk is free, can interoperate between VoIP and traditional PSTN systems, and supports the protocols these two systems use, including H.323 (a PSTN protocol), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), and Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP). More…