http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35315075/posts/fullSat, 30 Sep 2006 21:41:12 +0000http://www.singlepointnetworks.com/asteriskTomBlogger115http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35315075/posts/full/115965176062971725Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:29:20 +00002006-09-30T14:29:20.633-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Asterisk has taken the telecommunications industry by storm, providing a low cost alternative to closed and proprietary PBX systems.&nbsp; Asterisk has all of the functionality of much higher cost systems such as Cisco Call Manager, Broadsoft's Broadworks, and other large phone system vendors.&nbsp; In fact in the last 3 years at SinglePoint Networks we have never had to tell a customer "That can't be done".&nbsp; The flexibility and open nature of Asterisk provide end users, businesses, and service providers with the ability to execute their telecommunications strategies without incurring unnecessary costs.<br /><br />In the 3 years that we have been implementing Asterisk based solutions we have found that integrating other software applicaitons, databases, and web applications into Asterisk is very easy and straight forward.&nbsp; Providing advanced features which are not necessarily "built-in" to Asterisk is also relatively easy due to the open nature of the system.&nbsp; The purpose of this blog-book is to document and highlight the strengths of the Asterisk system.&nbsp; We will provide the reader with a basis in the technologies and configuration of an Asterisk system and then we will provide examples used in actual deployments from small 5 person offices up to 100 user call center solutions and service provider installations.<br /><br />At SinglePoint Networks we use Polycom phones and regularly implement the FreePBX GUI.&nbsp; The examples provided herein will show both command line configuration examples as well as GUI configuration samples.&nbsp; All handset specific configuration are Polycom configuration examples.<br /></div>http://www.singlepointnetworks.com/asterisk/2006/09/introduction.htmlTom