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The Asterisk(R) Open Source PBX

        By Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com> and the Asterisk.org developer community.
        Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Digium, Inc. and other copyright holders.

SECURITY

It is imperative that you read and fully understand the contents of the security information document before you attempt to configure and run an Asterisk server.

See Important Security Considerations for more information.

WHAT IS ASTERISK ?

Asterisk is an Open Source PBX and telephony toolkit. It is, in a sense, middleware between Internet and telephony channels on the bottom, and Internet and telephony applications at the top. However, Asterisk supports more telephony interfaces than just Internet telephony. Asterisk also has a vast amount of support for traditional PSTN telephony, as well.

For more information on the project itself, please visit the Asterisk home page and the official wiki. In addition you'll find lots of information compiled by the Asterisk community at voip-info.org.

There is a book on Asterisk published by O'Reilly under the Creative Commons License. It is available in book stores as well as in a downloadable version on the asteriskdocs.org web site.

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS