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Written by Cale D. Hollingsworth
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Saturday, 22 July 2006 |
Todays professional telecommute from their home and remote offices more than ever. Maintaining communications can be an expensive challenge.
Deploying Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology doesn't have to be expensive. Asterisk PBX offers a cost-effective alternative. Running on standard PC server hardware, Asterisk can provide most of the functionality of far more expensive closed/propietary systems from large vendors.
Excellent voice quality and high availaibility are important qualities of any deployed VOIP technology and Asterisk PBX will provide both.
Some of the features of Asterisk PBX include:
- ADSI On-Screen Menu System
- Alarm Receiver
- Append Message
- Authentication
- Automated Attendant
- Blacklists
- Blind Transfer
- Call Detail Records
- Call Forward on Busy
- Call Forward on No Answer
- Call Forward Variable
- Call Monitoring
- Call Parking
- Call Queuing
- Call Recording
- Call Retrieval
- Call Routing (DID & ANI)
- Call Snooping
- Call Transfer
- Call Waiting
- Caller ID
- Caller ID Blocking
- Caller ID on Call Waiting
- Calling Cards
- Conference Bridging
- Database Store / Retrieve
- Database Integration
- Dial by Name
- Direct Inward System Access
- Distinctive Ring
- Distributed Universal Number Discovery
- Do Not Disturb
- E911
- ENUM
- Fax Transmit and Receive (3rd Party OSS Package)
- Flexible Extension Logic
- Interactive Directory Listing
- Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
- Local and Remote Call Agents
- Macros
- Music On Hold
- Music On Transfer
- Flexible Mp3-based System
- Random or Linear Play
- Volume Control
- Predictive Dialer
- Privacy
- Open Settlement Protocol (OSP)
- Overhead Paging
- Protocol Conversion
- Remote Call Pickup
- Remote Office Support
- Roaming Extensions
- Route by Caller ID
- SMS Messaging
- Spell / Say
- Streaming Media Access
- Supervised Transfer
- Talk Detection
- Text-to-Speech (via Festival)
- Three-way Calling
- Time and Date
- Transcoding
- Trunking
- VoIP Gateways
- Voicemail
- Visual Indicator for Message Waiting
- Stutter Dialtone for Message Waiting
- Voicemail to email
- Voicemail Groups
- Web Voicemail Interface
Sinewave Technologies will design, implement, host and manage an Asterisk solution for your enterprise.
Contact us to find out more.
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