Asterisk : Open Source telephony at large

The Problem: A customer wanted a flexible system to allow voice applications under network and other software control. This actually started as a request to build an automated voice attendant with call-originate functionality.

Tesseract project and tutorial page on Asterisk

• Asterisk cheat sheet
• Asterisk installation
• Asterisk configuration

Asterisk related links

Asterisk.org is where to start. This is the Asterisk project's home page

Digium Corp. is the primary developer of Asterisk, and also manufactures hardware used under Asterisk

voip-info.org is where many Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) applications and projects live

void-info.org Asterisk page is major gateway to Asterisk docs and community

Asterisk community at XVoip.com is the unofficial online community for Asterisk

Asterisk documentation pages shortcuts

Asterisk is a large, complex and changing system. This is reflected in the documentation. While there are lots of pages on a few fairly comprehensive sites, the documentation is still growing to cover the many features afforded by the software. You will see lots of "...I found this by digging through the software, and it's still not complete.." kinds of notices on Asterisk doc and wiki pages. Caveat emptor (and, as always, Use The Source...).

Here is a set of shortcuts to some very useful pages on various setups, techniquess, and subsystems in Asterisk. Enjoy.

• Asterisk FAQ
• Asterisk sound files is handy for sound files, conversions, how to prepare and export pre-recorded sounds, etc.

Asterisk Manager API information:

• Asterisk Manager API
• Comments about Asterisk Manager API

Asterisk docs on other sites

Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI)