Imagine a life without communication, it’s suicidal isn’t it? If it were not for communication most of us would not have had such awesome start-ups lined up. In fact we would not even have attempted venturing out and starting out something new. It is because of communication that most of us have started believing in ourselves, have been able to gather enough knowledge about the world unknown to us till date and increased sources of income. VoIP enabled communication to take a step further by actually speeding up services and in turn life. Now with the coming in of asterisk solution, you have a one up condition in communication. Where earlier you had to ask your service provider to customize now, you can customize your needs yourself with the open source framework.
Asterisk:
What is it?
When
you start using the asterisk solution, you are actually using a open
source framework. You can make a server out of a normal computer
using this service. VoIP gateways, IP PBX, conference servers etc.
are all basically custom solutions developed for purpose of
communication. These custom solutions are powered and converted to
get server controls using the Asterisk solution. It can basically be
used using any operating system: Linux, Windows etc. With this
solution in hand you can have real-time communication applications
built. You can process a video real time like a video conferencing
for example using this solution. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? A
little bit of Linux and script programming and you can create your
own open source server using this framework.
The
Working
The
best way to call phones in an inexpensive way is using Asterisk. In
case of calling asterisk becomes you server while the PC, phone etc.
becomes the client. This server may use either Linux or Unix as the
operating system. If asterisk is connected via SIP then the client
should ideally be a SIP phone. In short the client side should be
configured properly. Firstly you need to be registered to Asterisk PBX device if you are to make/receive calls using Asterisk. You also
need PCs and softphones to be linked to the device. Remember you need
not be registered to Asterisk to receive/send calls through this
solution. All you need is a username and password for the same.
Advantages
of Using Asterisk Solutions
The
best benefit of having asterisk solution is the fact that it is an
open source framework, which means you can customize it as and when
you need it. As this solution requires no hardware, you save a lot of
costs involved in hardware. It is a very flexible solution as it can
work on any OS and on any system for that matter. It acts as a server
and it communicates with the client effectively and efficiently. It
can be used for any kind of business, right from a small scale
business to a large scale business.
If
you want a server communication enabling cheaper forms of VoIP
communication switch to Asterisk.
