Asterisk is the “ ” character that appears on a standard touch-tone telephone pad. Fortunately for us, someone from computer science did! Meet Mark Spencer and his brainchild, aptly christened “Asterisk”. Nobody in the telephony industry wanted to build an open, clean, scalable and seamlessly inter-operable platform for telephony like the internet. The success of revolutions like GNU/Linux is attributed to combined efforts of the likes of Linus Torvalds and a pool of geniuses, academicians, hobbyists, and geeks worldwide. Add to it the expensive licensing fees for this “sophisticated” proprietary technology and it becomes a no-no for users such as home users and small business users who also want a sophisticated, flexible telephony solution but cannot afford the expensive price tags. The technology used in these proprietary systems is usually closed and usually remains unpublished. From interoperability and scalability problems to problems caused due to lack of foresight during designing, these problems usually warrant expensive remedies. The problems caused are typical of closed proprietary systems. The problems surface as these systems progress deeper into their life cycle. These systems suffer from all the drawbacks that inherently bug all closed, proprietary systems. The reason for this is the lack of innovative thinking among makers of proprietary technologies that constitute the chaotic mess that we call the telephone system. While the computer industry has undergone a host of transformations since its inception a couple of decades ago, the century old telephony industry has had problems coping with new ideas and advances. The telephony industry has been facing a real crisis since the last decade.
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Wherever you go, your free software PBX follows! Did you know that it’s possible to build an entire telephony system centered around computers? One which is free of licensing costs too? Asterisk is a free software application written to do just that, and much more.
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