Asterisk Overview

What is Asterisk?

Asterisk is the world's leading open source telephony platform and tool kit. Whether your business wants to enhance a legacy PBX with applications such as IVR, voicemail, call recording, or auto attendant or create a next generation gateway, media server or application server, Asterisk offers flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary telephony.

The Benefits of Asterisk

'2008's Technology of the Year' winner - Asterisk is a complete telecommunications platform encompassing all the benefits of open source technology.

• Significant Cost Reduction - Zero upfront licensing and reduced development and marketing costs through free community participation can bring savings from 30% up to even 90% compared to proprietary systems.
• Enhanced Control and Customization - Complete visibility and power to influence all product capabilities, code issues and roadmaps.
• Extensive Scalability - A scalable model that can easily be adapted to meet changing requirements.
• High Levels of Innovation and Flexibility - Flexible dial plan and a deep and wide feature base.
• Total Commitment to Open Standards - across IP and TDM communication protocols - allowing customers the most diverse choice of architecture and hardware options without functionality restriction.

Foehn - The Experts in Asterisk

Foehn is UK's Premier Solutions Partner for Digium (the owner of Asterisk). Foehn is one of only few companies that have successfully deployed large-scale Asterisk solutions, with references in call centres, financial services, charities, higher education and online media industry verticals.

Foehn's team of Asterisk experts are in constant contact with the open source telephony community and clients' live systems. We know the answers - or where to find them quickly - to efficiently change, resolve and enhance your Asterisk system.

Whether its Digium's commercially supported Asterisk Business Edition, Switchvox or an Asterisk open source version, Foehn has the experience of implementing and supporting all solutions so is in the best position to advise you on the most appropriate option for your business requirements.