B100E on DAHDI User Manual
OpenVox Communication Co. LTD.
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Chapter 1 Overview
1.1 What is Asterisk
The Definition of Asterisk is described as follows:
Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD, Windows
(emulated) and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX
and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in four protocols, and can
interoperate with almost all standard-based telephony equipments using
relatively cost-effective hardware. Asterisk provides Voicemail services
with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response, and Call
Queuing. It supports three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, IAX,
SIP, H323 (as both client and gateway), MGCP (call manager only) and
SCCP/Skinny (voip-info.org).
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