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What is Asterisk?
Open Source PBX (Private Branch Exchange)
- powerful
- low cost
- affordable
- expandable
- scripting support for multiple languages using a technology called AGI (similar in concept to CGI)
- meld available and future telephony technologies
Runs on multiple platforms
- Linux (fully supported)
- BSD (in progress)
- Mac OS X (developers are trying to make it work)