Digium Announces the Launch of Asterisk 1.2
Asterisk 1.2 has over 3,000 improvements, upgrades, fixes, and additions
Digium Inc., the creator of Asterisk® and pioneer of open source telephony,
announced Asterisk 1.2, today at the IP.4.IT conference in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Asterisk 1.2 is the first major revision to Asterisk since the
release of Asterisk 1.0 in September 2004, and includes over 3,000 feature
additions and improvements to the overall performance and efficiency of
memory usage. Asterisk, the world's first open source PBX, offers a
strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over
TDM, IP and other architectures.
"We have been working very hard with the support of the Asterisk community
to release version 1.2 of Asterisk," said Mark Spencer, president of Digium
and creator of Asterisk. "As Asterisk plays an ever expanding role in the
telecommunications industry, it's important to support the rapid
development model of open source software quickly moving features from
concept to product while retaining software quality and architectural
integrity."
A significant number of changes have been made to the core of Asterisk
including code formatting, simplification and documentation. The Asterisk
developer community extends all over the world, and the new changes
incorporated in Asterisk 1.2 make it easier for new developers to get
involved. New features include:
* <http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/b4c0bfef41/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>A
number of significant changes to the core to improve performance and memory
usage
*
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/d1fd3df432/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Improved
voicemail features
*
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/5fda720ed3/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Addition
of the DUNDi (Distributed Universal Number Discovery) protocol
*
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/cdf6fe2d14/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Easier
Asterisk configuration
*
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/203306d07c/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Creation
of a Realtime Database Configuration Storage Engine
* <http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/e166cd2fb2/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>More
power added to the Asterisk Dialplan
*
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/ad9ab42e97/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Introduction
of Asterisk Extension Logic, a new, flexible method for configuring the
dialplan
* <http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/44d7097b17/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>New
interface for dynamic IVR flow control
*
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/f34687539b/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Configurable
access to general call features
*
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/41a453c108/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Improved
SIP protocol support
* <http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/9f67efde17/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>New
features for the IAX (Inter-Asterisk eXchange) protocol
* <http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/008916b8a5/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Use
of sound files for native music-on-hold
*
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/e3d5c51162/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Customized
CDR Support
* <http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/b274de71e7/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>PRI
support improvements
Availability
Asterisk 1.2 will be available for download from the
<http://r.vresp.com/?Digium/692e15dea3/402640/f5b7e41643/c97cd5e>Asterisk
website,FTP and CVS servers after 5:00PM Pacific Standard Time on November
16th.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has
been contributed from open source software engineers around the world. It
supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of
voice over traditional telephony interfaces. It also supports US and
European standard signaling types used in standard business phone systems,
allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated
networks and existing infrastructure. Using the Inter-Asterisk eXchange
(IAX) Voice over IP protocol, Asterisk merges voice and data traffic
seamlessly across disparate networks. While using packet voice, it is
possible to send data such as URL addresses and images in-line with voice
traffic, allowing advanced integration of information.
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of
Digium Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respected owners.
About Digium
Digium is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's
first Open Source PBX. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony
interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective
approach to voice and data transport over TDM, switched, and Ethernet
architectures.
Digium solutions reduce the costs of traditional TDM and VoIP
implementations through Open Source, standards-based software and
next-generation gateways, media servers, and application servers. Digium
hardware supports traditional voice protocols, including PRI, RBS, FXS,
FXO, E&M, Feature Group D, Groundstart, Loopstart, and GR-303. Data
protocols include PPP, Cisco HDLC, and Frame Relay. For packet voice,
Asterisk supports IAX (Inter-Asterisk Exchange), SIP, MGCP, Cisco Skinny®
(SCCP), and H.323 VoIP protocols.
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