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Asterisk VoIP PBX

asteriskAsterisk has features that let your business run more effectively and with fewer hassles. And it does all of this for a fraction of the cost of the PBX dinosaurs of the past.

Asterisk gives you real-time connectivity on both PSTN (public Switched Telephone Network) and VoIP networks. Asterisk is much more than a standard PBX. With Asterisk in your network, you can do telephony in new ways.

  • Connecting employees working from home to the office PBX over broadband connections.  Enabling remote users to have calls directly transferred to them as if they were working from their office.
  • Connecting offices in various states over VoIP, Internet or a private IP network
  • Giving all employees voicemail, integrated with the Web and their E-mail.  Allowing users to retrieve their voicemail messages from a web interface or have them directly delivered to their e-mail.
  • Building interactive voice applications, that connect to your ordering system or other in-house applications
  • Giving access to the company PBX for business travellers, directly from the laptop computers using a soft phone application connecting from airport or hotel wireless hotspots
  • Free calls between interstate and International offices.
  • ...and much more

Asterisk includes many features only found in top-of-the-line unified messaging systems, like

  • The ability to interface with normal telephone lines, and VoIP connections
  • Music-on-hold for customers waiting in queues, supporting streamed media as well as MP3 music
  • Call queues where call agents jointly handle answering incoming calls and monitor the queue
  • Text-to-speech system integration
  • Call data record (CDR) generation for integration with billing systems
  • Asterisk offers practically any feature that you would require from a PBX.  Eliminating the need to purchase expensive hardware upgrades for your proprietary key telephone system every time you want to upgrade your system.
  • No need to purchase additional line cards each tine you want to add more handsets.  Just simply purchase a new handset and plug it into your network.


Asterisk Features

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 features one would expect of a large proprietary key telephone system such as Voicemail, Conference Bridging, Call Queuing, and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) menus systems .

Call Features

  • Call Detail Records
  • Call Forward
  • Call Monitoring
  • Call Parking
  • Call Queuing
  • Call Recording
  • Call Transfer
    • Blind Transfer
    • Supervised Transfer
  • Call Waiting
  • Caller ID
  • Caller ID Blocking
  • Conference Bridging
  • Database Integration
  • Distinctive Ring
  • Do Not Disturb
  • Fax Transmit and Receive (3rd Party Package)
  • Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
  • Music On Hold
  • Music On Transfer
  • Overhead Paging
  • Remote Call Pickup
  • Remote Office Support
  • Roaming Extensions
  • Route by Caller ID
  • SMS Messaging
  • TAPI - Dialling from Windows applications
  • Text-to-Speech
  • VoIP Gateways
  • Voicemail
    • Visual Indicator for Message Waiting
    • Voicemail to email
    • Web Voicemail Interface

This all adds up to a PBX that’s better, saving you time and money to focus on more important things, like running your business.

The following diagram illustrates a typical Voice over IP network, including head office, remote office and/or remote staff member.
voip network example diagram

 
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