Asterisk® Features

Asterisk-based telephony solutions offer a rich and flexible feature set. Asterisk offers both classical PBX functionality and advanced features, and interoperates with traditional standards-based telephony systems and Voice over IP systems.  Asterisk offers the features one would expect of a large proprietary PBX system such as Voicemail, Conference Bridging, Call Queuing, and Call Detail Records.

Call Features

• 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 (DUNDi™)
• 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
• Zapateller

Computer-Telephony Integration

• AGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface)
• Graphical Call Manager
• Outbound Call Spooling
• Predictive Dialer
• TCP/IP Management Interface

Scalability

• TDMoE (Time Division Multiplex over Ethernet)
• Allows direct connection of Asterisk PBX
• Zero latency
• Uses commodity Ethernet hardware
• Voice-over IP
• Allows for integration of physically separate installations
• Uses commonly deployed data connections
• Allows a unified dialplan across multiple offices

Codecs

• ADPCM
• G.711 (A-Law & μ-Law)
• G.723.1 (pass through)
• G.726
• G.729 (through purchase of commercial license through Digium)
• GSM
• iLBC
• Linear
• LPC-10
• Speex

Protocols

• IAX™ (Inter-Asterisk Exchange)
• H.323
• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
• MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol
• SCCP (Cisco® Skinny®)

Traditional Telephony Interoperability

• E&M
• E&M Wink
• Feature Group D
• FXS
• FXO
• GR-303
• Loopstart
• Groundstart
• Kewlstart
• MF and DTMF support
• Robbed-bit Signaling (RBS) Types
• MFC-R2 (Not supported by Digium. However, a patch is available at Voip-info.org)

PRI Protocols

• 4ESS
• BRI (ISDN4Linux)
• DMS100
• EuroISDN
• Lucent 5E
• National ISDN2
• NFAS