Asterisk
Asterisk is our primary telephony platform and we've been developing and maintaining Asterisk PBX services for numerous companies across the UK. It all started with Asterisk 1.2 but moved onto 1.4 and now we're testing out the latest 1.6. Asterisk's levels of flexibility and power are unmatched in the hardware or software PBX world.
We can provide a number of case studies where we've put this technology to best effect. Visit Telephony and VoIP Case Studies.
Benefits
As a tech company it's easy to get bogged down in the jargon-fuelled techno babble but here we like to concentrate on the real business benefit. So here's just a few of those:
- Integration - Unparalleled by any other hardware or software PBX. Your company can integrate existing legacy applications, desktop apps, web services, secondary PBX's, networks, telephones, homes, offices and much more. For some examples of the possibilities see our dedicated pbx integration examples page.
- Flexibility - The system can change with your business. Growing and restructuring all the way. You'll no longer need to re-purchase huge, fixed hardware-based PBX solutions every few years to ensure you keep up. The nature of Asterisk means it's programmable on-the-fly.
- Reliability - Asterisk is open source technology and that means the system is scrutinised not by a small team of developers but by thousands of developers, testers, corporations, governments and organisations across the globe. This provides unequalled levels of robustness. As way of an example: Linux (an open source OS) makes up over 70% of the worlds Internet infrastructure. That includes military, government, corporate, servers, routers, etc. With that kind of endorsement you can't go far wrong.
- Cost - Asterisk's open source nature means operating costs are much lower than closed proprietary solutions. When a hardware solution costs £300,000 the equivalent Asterisk solution can be built and maintained for approximately £50,000. All with the same levels of service, reliability and care.