Applications
Asterisk® is a complete PBX software. It runs on Linux, BSD, Windows (emulated) and OS X and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk® does VoIP in four protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. Asterisk® provides voicemail services with directory, call conferencing, interactive voice response, and call queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, IAX, SIP, H.323 (as both client and gateway), MGCP (call manager only) and SCCP/Skinny. Asterisk® needs no additional hardware for VoIP, although it does expect a non-standard driver that implements dummy hardware as a non-portable timing mechanism (for certain applications such as conferencing). A single (or multiple) VoIP provider(s) can be used for outgoing and/or incoming calls. Outgoing and incoming calls can be handled through entirely different VoIP and/or Telco providers. For interconnection with digital and analog telephony equipment, Asterisk®
supports a number of hardware devices like Odin's OTX compatible devices.
Odin has single, quad and octi span T1 and E1 interfaces for interconnection
to PRI lines and channel banks also a complete system integration all-in-one
Asterisk® enable devices like Alvis-4-CSI and Alvis-8-CSI. |