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Asterisk

Asterisk - 1.4.11

complete software PBX

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Current Version: 1.4.11
Release Date: 2007-08-26
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 4,777
Downloads (all versions): 11,066
Price: Donations welcome

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Product Description:

Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.

Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response, Call Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, SIP and H.323 (as both client and gateway).

Check the features section on the official Asterisk web site (http://www.asterisk.org) for a more complete list.

This version adds some custom modules by mezzoConsult (see http://mezzo.net/asterisk)
  • app_ldap - ldap support for dialplan.
  • app_notify - CallerID notification.
  • app_swift - support for Text-To-Speech Cepstral voices in the dialplan.
  • res_bonjour - configurable Bonjour support.

What's new in this version:

  • As previously announced, this release contains a large number of new features over the 1.2 series; see the CHANGES file in the distribution for the complete list. Before installing this release, be sure to read the UPGRADE.txt file as well, to be aware of changes that were made that will require you to change configuration files or dialplan entries.
  • This version contains numerous bug fixes. One of these is for a security issue in chan_sip. The issue is that SIP dialog history was being stored in memory regardless if the option for this was turned on or off. This could be abused to cause a system using chan_sip to run out of memory.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later (Universal)

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Asterisk Troubleshooting ReportCan be made to work .. - Version: 1.4.8, 7/31/2007 03:40PM PST

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Andre.P
This download was clearly not tested properly before being unleashed into the world. Same goes for the previous (1.2..13) version, also available on the Mezzo website, so don't go wasting your time downloading that in the hope that the sloppiness is the exception.

There are several bits missing. The swift framework which is needed for app_notify is not included in the .dmg file, and the res_bonjour module is incomplete. The absence of these causes Asterisk to fail on startup. The quickest solution is to simply remove app_swift.so and res_bonjour.so from the /Library/Asterisk/modules directory, to stop Asterisk from trying to load them.

Once you do this, the package seems to run reasonably well, as far as I can tell.





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Asterisk CommentarySorry guys - Version: 1.2.13, 10/29/2006 01:40AM PST

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Matsoi
I have heard a lot about this application and was happy to download it and give it a try. What happened,, 34Mb was installed in my Libraries and not any application was found any where. No documentation or nothing.

Going to "The developers site" directed me to a download page. No documentation or anything.

How do you expect that anybody could use this application???
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Asterisk CommentaryAlternative to Proprietary PBX - Version: 1.2.12.1, 10/4/2006 03:39PM PST

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Jeff Mincey
Asterisk is really big time and not a tinker toy. Don't be misled by its status as open source; it is a VERY robust and complete product and as it continues to mature, it has the potential to bankrupt a lot of other players in the small to mid-size business market.

One university in Texas recently left a Cisco solution in favor of Asterisk - and we are talking an installation of 6000 phones.

This product needs more polish, more documentation, an improved user interface, but I expect these things to evolve in time.

I highly recommend that you investigate this product seriously.
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