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Asterisk is an open source telephony platform for Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Unix. It is used as a telephone exchange, as an IVR (Interactive Voice Response system) or as a connection between telephony based on different techniques and protocols. Asterisk is responsible for the conversion from one protocol to another and the connection between connections based on different protocols. The name comes from the asterisk symbol (*). This symbol is usually used as a wildcard in the computer world. Asterisk is extremely flexible and is therefore also called the Swiss army knife of telephony. License and availability Asterisk is free software released under version 2 of the GPL. Mark Spencer of Digium is the founder of the Asterisk Project and is still a member of the core developer team. Many other programmers and volunteers have already added features and reported bugs. Asterisk was originally written for Linux, but it also works under OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS X. Since Linux is […]