Asterisk now runs on Linux, BSD and OS X and handles

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Dixon’s breakthrough was in recognising that CPUs would get much faster and that the technology on the cards could be shifted into CPU processing. He devised a new Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) card with an accompanying driver written for BSD UNIX. He called the card “Tormenta”, Spanish for storm, and named the business after General Emiliano Zapata the Mexican revolutionary.

A Linux specialist, Mark Spencer, re-formatted the software for Linux. He already had a concept – Asterisk – waiting for an enabler technology, and this was it. The cards evolved and were marketed under the Digium brand and Asterisk was made open source.

Open Source
VoIP in 4 protocols. germany telegram A competent developer with telephony skills can use it to build and extend a PBX. It is standards-based so it can interoperate with any telephony equipment developed to industry standards.

It is an ideal fit for VoIP, needing no additional hardware. Customers simply choose a VoIP DID provider such as IDT for incoming and outgoing calls.

Asterisk community
There is an Asterisk community for exchanging ideas, business and support [3]. These are handled by a number of subscription-based mailing lists:

– asterisk-app-dev – Application development discussions
– asterisk-code-review – Peer code reviews
– asterisk-security
– asterisk-users – The main route for getting suppor

Asterisk the perfect partner for VoIP
Asterisk fulfils the vision of Jim Dixon and Mark Spencer by allowing businesses to benefit from low cost, high-quality telephony with no vendor lock-in. By using commodity hardware with open source software, Asterisk is the perfect partner for VoIP.