ASTERISK BASICS
• Asterisk is a hybrid TDM and packet voice PBX
• Interfaces any piece of telephony hardware or software to any telephony application
• Prime components: channels and /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf - the Asterisk dial plan
• Channels can be many different technologies - SIP, IAX, H323, skinny, Zaptel, and others as they are created
• extensions.conf is basically a powerful programming language controlling the flow of calls
• Applications do the work - answering a channel, ringing a channel, providing a voicemail system etc.
• Asterisk is a hybrid TDM and packet voice PBX
• Interfaces any piece of telephony hardware or software to any telephony application
• Prime components: channels and /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf - the Asterisk dial plan
• Channels can be many different technologies - SIP, IAX, H323, skinny, Zaptel, and others as they are created
• extensions.conf is basically a powerful programming language controlling the flow of calls
• Applications do the work - answering a channel, ringing a channel, providing a voicemail system etc.
