Telephone Wreckers tells you all about Asterisk phone systems - the benefits, features and what product you'll need to build your own custom IP phone system.

1. PRODUCT AND BRAND
PRESENTATION
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2. Asterisk has won lots of awards!

3. What is Asterisk?
 The Asterisk project started in 1999 when Mark
Spencer released the initial code under the GPL open source
license. Since that time, it has been enhanced and tested by
a global community of thousands. Today, Asterisk is
maintained by the combined efforts of Digium and the
Asterisk community.
 Asterisk is a Computer Based Telephone System software.
At it’s core, Asterisk is an open source software that
transforms an ordinary computer into a communications
server. Since Spencer released Asterisk to the world in 1999
as a phone operating system, it has been downloaded
500,000 times, and it continues to be downloaded 1,000
times per day.
 Digium is the inventor, sponsor, and maintainer of Asterisk
open source and UC phone systems for SMBs.

4. More information please…
When PBXs were originally developed, wireline phone calls were the
only type of electronic communication available.
Today, the communications landscape has expanded to include email,
instant messaging, video conferencing, desktop sharing, SMS and
mobile telephony.
Unified Communications is a catch-all term that describes the process
of merging all of these technologies and integrating them with business
processes.
Unified Communications aims
to increase efficiency while
simplifying management.

5. The Case for Asterisk:
You can use Asterisk to build communications applications, things like
business phone systems (also known as PBXs), call distributors, VoIP
gateways and conference. Asterisk includes both low and high-level
components that significantly simplify the process of building these complex
applications.
Currently boasting over two million users, Asterisk supports a wide
range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over
traditional telephony interfaces, featuring VoIP packet protocols such as SIP
and IAX among others. It supports U.S. and European standard signalling
types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-
generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure
Thousands of companies in more that 170 countries rely on Digium
phone systems, here are but few:

6. PTSN
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Single Phone, Single User
(Answering Machine)
PTSN
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Three line, Five User (SOHO)
Hanover
Lebanon
Chicago
Enterprise User

7. But why do I want Asterisk?
 Cheap!
 Flexibility
 End user can control phone system
 Highly extensible
 Broad feature set
 Powerful and efficient
 Hardware is cheap, reliability and scalability.
 Runs on Linux

8. What can Asterisk do for you?
 Unified Voicemail
 Advanced Meetme conferencing
– conference bridging
 Contact Centre Queuing
 Interactive Voice Response
 Automated Attendant
 Video Conferencing
 Jabber / Google Talk integration
 Find me / Follow me
 Out of state DID’s (all VoIP
systems)
 Call monitoring and recording
“Asterisk makes it
simple to create and
deploy a wide range
of telephony
applications and
services, including
IP PBXs, VoIP
gateways, call
centre ACDs and
IVR systems.”

9. What type of Business can
benefit from using Asterisk?
 Commercial offices with between 2 and 2000+
extensions
 Call centres, requiring call queuing (inbound and
outbound) and call recording, IVR, ACD. When Asterisk
was tested in 400-person call centers, costs fell by
two-thirds.
 Emergency Call centres (000)
 Large sites requiring DECT solutions that roam across
multiple cells
 Hotel and billing solutions
 The ability to block UNLIMITED numbers from being
contactable.

10. Sounds good, so what do I need
to know to use Asterisk?
Lets think of Asterisk like an engine / vehicle metaphor.
Asterisk is an engine. It’s powerful. It’s flexible, it has
ENORMOUS potential.
 What you require is a skilled engineer who can take the
engine and build it into a vehicle.
 A custom vehicle built specifically for your business needs
and requirements.
 Asterisk requires some fairly advanced technical skills,
including a good working knowledge of IP networking, Linux
system administration, traditional telephony experience and
script programming know-how. Even experienced
programmers will need to overcome learning curves to
create a working system.
 Ports also available for OSX and Windows

11. What can TW do for Asterisk?
AASTRA is a Participating Company of
Asterisk
Starting with the Enterprise which is probably the system most Asterisk adaptable.
 2-300 SIP extentions
 60 concurrent calls
 No limit SIP trunks
 Auto-attendant
 Voicemail to e-mail
 500GB / 4 million minutes of auto recording (that's more than 7 and a half years
of non-stop talk!)
 Unified messaging
 8 port FXO/FXS/BRI expandability
 No licence fees
 BRI available
 Data rack mountable (brackets included)

12. What other TW Products and
Asterisk work together?
 IP VoIP Systems: Aastra / NEC / Aristel
 IP handsets new and refurbished:
Cisco IP Phones (except IP 7920)
Polycom IP Phones
Snom IP Phones
Avaya IP phones: DIGIUM HANDSETS WILL SUPERCEDE
 Headsets – Specific for Unified Communications
Blackwire C710 / C710-M
Blackwire C720 / C720-M
ENTREA C610 / C620
SAVI W0430 OTE Dect
 Conference Phones (Polycom / Plantronics Calisto)
 Call Recording Devices
 Music on Hold players
 UPS

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 3G fail-over can be implemented if required for a third redundancy connection
 VOIP Carrier/Provider can redirect VOIP Calls/Services to Mobile Phones in the event of ALL of the above failing for
an extended period of time
 Un-Paralleled Call Quality/Clarity
 Video Calling (H263 and H264 supported) for Video Handsets and SIP Softphone Software such as
CounterPath Bria and Polycom RealPresence
 YOUR own custom company logo on most VoIP handsets
 Scalable to meet expanding needs - Limited only by server performance and internet bandwidth
 License-Free Voice-mail for all staff/extensions - even accessible remotely from external phones or from Skype
 License-Free Extensions - virtually unlimited extensions
 License-Free Conferencing - with pin security if required
 Free Intra-ITSP Calls (both to End Points and other organisations)
 Distinctive Ring to differentiate between INTERNAL and EXTERNAL calls
 License-Free ACD Queues/Groups (Automatic Call Distribution) - sales/support/help-desk queues etc
 Call Parking/Hold Queues
 Call Monitoring/Recording for both Call Quality/Monitoring (listen only) and also staff Training/Coaching (listen and 1-
way chat)
 Handset convergence - Access your calls anywhere on any device - Hot-Desk, VOIP Handset, Soft Phone on PC, Soft-
phone on Android/iPhone/iPad, etc
 Skype integration with SKYPE-SIP Services (supports G729 low-bandwidth codec) for incoming Skype users to call your
PABX directly from Skype software (Skype-based National/International VoIP Roaming for Staff and Clients)
 Skype Calls TO YOU can be initiated directly from your Web Site via a Web Browser (for callers that have skype
installed)
 End User - Remote voicemail retrieval - via Dial-in, via Skype Dial-in, or email attachment
 End User - Web-Based real-time portal/console/panel (FOP2 Virtual Switchboard/Attendant) for
(phones/calls/lines/users status) and user functions (supports Terminal Server, Touch Screens AND Android WiFi
Tablets)

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 End User - Web-Based user-to-user IM/Chat within the User FOP2 Virtual Switchboard/Attendant (supports Terminal
Server, Touch Screens AND Android WiFi Tablets)
 End User - Polycom Desktop Connection for VVX SIP Video Handsets (PDC) Software (Workstations only - NOT
RDP/Terminal servers) for extending your Polycom handset to your Computer screen
 Visual/Interactive(mouse-click dialing) Directory via Web portal/console/panel (FOP2 Virtual Switchboard/Attendant)
for both Company-Wide *and* Private contacts
 Speed-Dial directory available for Company-Wide dialing (where hard-copy printed wall-lists are preferred)
 Incoming Caller ID Number to NAME IDENTIFICATION for incoming calls (based on above directory lists)
 Dictation - Dictate via PABX headset/handset to email as a sound file for processing by PA/Typist or Voice-to-text
software
 Admin User - Web-Based real-time portal/console/panel (FOP2 Virtual Switchboard/Attendant) for company wide
visibility and admin functions (supports Terminal Server, Touch Screens AND Android WiFi Tablets)
 Direct In-Dial for incoming calls to bypass reception if required
 Auto Directory Attendant - IVR Voice-based directory of all staff names if required - even for external callers (this
prompts you to key in letters of names from phone keypad)
 Low Bandwidth Codecs (including G729) - optional - These should ONLY be used when ABSOLUTELY necessary to avoid
unnecessary server trans-coding/cpu load
 Fax Support (T.38 only - ITSP-Specific) - requires EITHER a T.38 gateway device OR T.38 FaxVoip Software as a
DIRECT SIP/T.38 CONNECTION to ITSP (SIP/Internet Telephony Services Provider)
 Manual override for automatic after hours/holiday queue processing
 Intercom feature - extension-based paging with auto-answer
 Call Logging and Reporting
 Least-Cost call routing for multiple carriers with mixed rates
 Flash Operator Panel (for ALL Network Users) example
 Receptionist Extension Status Monitoring (using sidecar multiple button expanders)
 Receptionist Enhanced BLF (Busy Lamp Field) for remote pickup of monitored ringing extensions (Additional LICENSED
OPTION)

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