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Asterisk product overview
What is Asterisk?
Asterisk by Digium is an open source communications tool that provides voice and video communication solutions for small, mid-size and large organizations across the globe. The software is freely available and can connect seamlessly with legacy communication systems and VoIP. Asterisk includes many pre-built components that have the capability to handle simple as well as complex voice, video and text communications.
Key benefits of using Asterisk
? The tool offers features such as call recording, call forwarding, call routing, blacklists, call queuing, call waiting, caller ID, calling cards and blind transfer.
? The product can be used to build a complete phone system, to bridge gaps between systems or to extend or enhance an existing system.
? Asterisk is flexible and lets users define the solution that truly fits their requirements and is stable as well as reliable.
? The system supports both classical PBX functionality as well as advanced features that are associated with large, high-end proprietary PBXs and inter-operates both with traditional telephony systems and VoIP systems.
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Starting from
595
Starting from
30.95
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Asterisk pricing information
Value for money
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Asterisk features
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- Likelihood to recommend8.65/10
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Adolfo M.
Government Administration, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Our experience using Asterisk has been very good since it has allowed us to interconnect the institution's branches via VoIP and it has also been possible to scale without problems. In addition to integrating with applications towards the end user
Asterisk is a flexible VoIP platform that allows interaction with telephone systems within the institution nationwide, also allows integration with specific business applications
The implementation can be a bit complicated because the server cards and the services of the telephony provider have to be compatible.
Wobe Muki Marguerite N.
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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An amazing free platform! In my industry, we use it everyday and it eases our day-to-day communications. Asterisk, you are unique!!!!
Asterisk is a real time voice and video application, the following points made me recommend it to my industry. -It is a free software!!! so amazing with the great solutions it provides -It is easy to setup and user friendly. Working as the Network and systems administrator in my industry (education), I discovered asterisk and amazingly I needed not a sophisticated machine to run it and it worked well...
-One needs to be dedicated to make it work
Emil H.
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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If you want a good and free open source VOIP solution that you can manage in house, then Asterisk is a good choice. It can be easily installed (not upgraded however) and managed by IT system administrators. Is logic (queues, SIP opening and context for calling) is something that you will figure out quite quickly. You can even use multiple WAN ports and multiple SIP trunk operators with the same server so this is also an advantage. The biggest disadvantage is that if a new version comes out it is easier to do the fresh installation then rater to go and try to make an upgrade. Overall, as an open source system it is a great value for money.
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William F.
Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We use this everyday for our phones. We test a variety of platforms on a regular basis, but we have always stuck with Asterisk because it does everything we need.
Asterisk has nearly everything you would need in a phone system for a small business. With some technical knowledge you can get the free version of this and do everything yourself with very minor costs to your bottom line.
The learning curve on Asterisk systems is steep. If you want to do anything custom, you will pretty much have to hire someone to do it for you unless you have a lot of experience and technical knowledge. Much of this can be overcome by using a GUI such as FreePBX.
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Religious Institutions, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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This is the BEST VOIP software you can use. First of all its a free base. It has so many features that are amazing for small and large business setups. You can buy really cheap analog lines and hook up to this system. And just use your own phones. It saves 1000's of dollars each year from competitive voip systems.
The software can be buggy when first setting up and interfacing cards. It works great but if you are not familiar with command promp you will not be fully able to set it up.
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