Get started – Asterisk – Learn Asterisk Programming

What is Asterisk?

Asterisk is an open source framework for building communications applications. Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server. Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers and other custom solutions. It is used by small businesses, large businesses, call centers, carriers and government agencies, worldwide. Asterisk is free and open source. Asterisk is sponsored by Digium.

  1. An Open Source software development project
  2. Written in the C Programming Language 
  3. Running on Linux (or other types of Unix )
  4. Powering Business Telephone Systems
  5. Connecting many different Telephony protocols
  6. A toolkit for building many things: like An IP PBX with many powerful features and applications, VoIP Gateways, Conferencing systems, and much, much more
  7. Supporting VoIP Phones as well as PSTN and POTS
  8. Speaking SIP , the most common VoIP protocol, among others

Asterisk Today

Today, there are more than one million Asterisk-based communications systems in use, in more than 170 countries. Asterisk is used by almost the entire Fortune 1000 list of customers. Most often deployed by system integrators and developers, Asterisk can become the basis for a complete business phone system, or used to enhance or extend an existing system, or to bridge a gap between systems.

Where Did It Come From?

The Asterisk project started in 1999 when Mark Spencer released the initial code under the GPL open source license. Since that time, it has been enhanced and tested by a global community of thousands. Today, Asterisk is maintained by the combined efforts of Digium and the Asterisk community.

What Can You Do With Asterisk?

Asterisk is a framework for building multi-protocol, real-time communications applications and solutions. Asterisk is to realtime voice and video applications as what Apache is to web applications: the underlying platform. Asterisk abstracts the complexities of communications protocols and technologies, allowing you to concentrate on creating innovative products and solutions.

You can use Asterisk to build communications applications, things like business phone systems (also known as PBXs), call distributors, VoIP gateways and conference bridges. Asterisk includes both low and high-level components that significantly simplify the process of building these complex applications.

What Makes Asterisk Different?

Asterisk is open source, which means you can get under the hood, see how it works and make any changes or enhancements you like. Asterisk is flexible and lets you define the solution that truly fits your requirements. Asterisk is stable, reliable and in production on thousands of systems worldwide. Asterisk is free to use.

What Do I Need To Know To Use Asterisk?

The Asterisk framework itself is built by developers for developers. If you want to create applications and solutions with Asterisk you will need a working knowledge of Linux, script programming, networking and telephony.

If you’re not a developer, you can still take advantage of the power of Asterisk by using pre-packaged solutions built on Asterisk. You can also connect us to get advantage of Asterisk build product.

Prerequisite Skills

Asterisk is an application development framework. To build applications with Asterisk you should have basic understand of Linux/Unix system administration, be familiar with the fundamentals of VoIP and/or legacy telephony, and be comfortable with the basics of script programming.

How Do I Get Started?

Contact Us to Learn Asterisk or mail us at info@eduguru.in

 

  1. Introduction: Beginning Asterisk
  2. Watch Videos
  3. Resources for Understanding
  4. Installing Asterisk
  5. Hello World with Asterisk and SIP
  6. First Call with Asterisk
  7. Writing Dialplan and Application Code

Source : Digium.com

Satya Prakash

VOIP Expert: More than 8 years of experience in Asterisk Development and Call Center operation Management. Unique Combination of Skill Set as IT, Analytics and operation management.

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