Solutions

Solutions

Asterisk-based telephony solutions offer a rich and flexible feature set. Asterisk offers both classical PBX functionality and advanced features, and interoperates with traditional standards-based telephony systems and Voice over IP systems. Asterisk offers the advanced features that are often associated with large, high end (and high cost) proprietary PBXs.

See the Asterisk Glossary for a list of terms.

Call Features

  • ADSI On-Screen Menu System
  • Alarm Receiver
  • Append Message
  • Authentication
  • Automated Attendant
  • Blacklists
  • Blind Transfer
  • Call Detail Records
  • Call Forward on Busy
  • Call Forward on No Answer
  • Call Forward Variable
  • Call Monitoring
  • Call Parking
  • Call Queuing
  • Call Recording
  • Call Retrieval
  • Call Routing (DID   ANI)
  • Call Snooping
  • Call Transfer
  • Call Waiting
  • Call ID
  • Call ID Blocking
  • Call ID on Call Waiting
  • Call Cards
  • Conference Bridging
  • Database Store / Retrieve
  • Database Integration
  • Dial by Name
  • Direct Inward System Access
  • Distinctive Ring
  • Distributed Universal Number
  • Discovery (DUNDi™)
  • Do Not Disturb
  • E911
  • ENUM
  • Fax Transmit and Receive
  • Flexible Extension Logic
  • Interactive Directory Listing
  • Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
  • Local and Remote Call Agents
  • Macros
  • Music On Hold
  • Music On Transfer:
    •      Flexible Mp3-based System
    •      Random or Linear Play
    •      Volume Control
  • Predictive Dialer
  • Privacy
  • Open Settlement Protocol (OSP)
  • Overhead Paging
  • Protocol Conversion
  • Remote Call Pickup
  • Remote Office Support
  • Roaming Extensions
  • Route by Caller ID
  • SMS Messaging
  • Spell / Say
  • Streaming Media Access
  • Supervised Transfer

Call Features

  • Talk Detection
  • Text-to-Speech (via Festival)
  • Three-way Calling
  • Time and Date
  • Transcoding
  • Trunking
  • VoIP Gateways
  • Voicemail:
    •      Visual Indicator for Message Waiting
    •      Stutter Dialtone for Message Waiting
    •      Voicemail to email
    •      Voicemail Groups
    •      Web Voicemail InterfaceZapateller

Codecs

  • ADPCM
  • G.711 (A-Law   µ-Law)
  • G.719 (pass through)
  • G.722
  • G.722.1 licensed from
  •   Polycom©
  • G.722.1 Annex C licensed from
  •   Polycom©
  • G.723.1 (pass through)
  • G.726
  • G.729a
  • GSM
  • iLBC
  • Linear
  • LPC-10
  • Speex

Computer-Telephony Integration

  • AGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface)
  • Graphical Call Manager
  • Outbound Call Spooling
  • Predictive Dialer
  • TCP/IP Management Interface

VoIP Protocols

  • Google Talk
  • H.323
  • IAX™ (Inter-Asterisk eXchange)
  • Jingle/XMPP
  • MGCP (Media Gateway Control
  • Protocol
  • SCCP (Cisco© Skinny©)
  • SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
  • Skype
  • UNIStim

Scalability

  • TDMoE (Time Division Multiplex over
  •   Ethernet)
  • Allows direct connection of Asterisk
  •   PBX
  • Zero latency
  • Uses commodity Ethernet
  •   hardwareVoice-over IP
  • Allows for integration of physically
  •   separate installations
  • Uses commonly deployed data
  •   connections
  • Allows a unified dialplan across
  •   multiple offices

Traditional Telephony Protocols

  • E M
  • E M Wink
  • Feature Group D
  • FXS
  • FXO
  • GR-303
  • Loopstart
  • Groundstart
  • Kewlstart
  • MF and DTMF support
  • MFC-R2 (Not supported. However, a
  •   patch is available)

Speech

  • Cepstral TTS
  • Lumenvox ASR
  • Vestec ASR

ISDN Protocols

  • AT T 4ESS
  • EuroISDN PRI and BRI
  • Lucent 5ESS
  • National ISDN 1
  • National ISDN 2
  • NFAS
  • Nortel DMS100
  • Q.SIG