Features Available in Asterisk

Asterisk-based telephony solutions offer a rich and flexible feature set. Asterisk offers both classical PBX functionality and advanced features, and interoperates with traditional standards-based telephony systems and Voice over IP systems. Asterisk offers the advanced features that are often associated with large, high end (and high cost) proprietary PBXs.  The list below includes a sample of the features available in Asterisk.

See the Asterisk Glossary for a list of terms.

Call Features

ADSI On-Screen Menu System
Alarm Receiver
Append Message
Authentication
Automated Attendant
Blacklists
Blind Transfer
Call Detail Records
Call Forward on Busy
Call Forward on No Answer
Call Forward Variable
Call Monitoring
Call Parking
Call Queuing
Call Recording
Call Retrieval
Call Routing (DID & ANI)
Call Snooping
Call Transfer
Call Waiting
Caller ID
Caller ID Blocking
Caller ID on Call Waiting
Calling Cards
Conference Bridging
Database Store / Retrieve
Database Integration
Dial by Name
Direct Inward System Access
Distinctive Ring
Distributed Universal Number Discovery (DUNDi™)
Do Not Disturb
E911
ENUM
Fax Transmit and Receive
Flexible Extension Logic
Interactive Directory Listing
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Local and Remote Call Agents
Macros
Music On Hold
Music On Transfer:

  • Flexible Mp3-based System
  • Random or Linear Play
  • Volume Control

Privacy
Open Settlement Protocol (OSP)
Overhead Paging
Protocol Conversion
Remote Call Pickup
Remote Office Support
Roaming Extensions
Route by Caller ID

Call Features

SMS Messaging
Spell / Say
Streaming Hold Music
Supervised Transfer
Talk Detection
Text-to-Speech (via Festival)
Three-way Calling
Time and Date
Transcoding
Trunking
VoIP Gateways
Voicemail:

  • Visual Indicator for Message Waiting
  • Stutter Dialtone for Message Waiting
  • Voicemail to email
  • Voicemail Groups
  • Web Voicemail Interface

Zapateller

Computer-Telephony Integration

Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI)
Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI)
Asterisk REST Interface (ARI)
Outbound Call Spooling

Scalability

TDMoE (Time Division Multiplex over Ethernet)
Allows direct connection of Asterisk PBX
Zero latency
Uses commodity Ethernet hardware
Voice-over IP
Allows for integration of physically separate installations
Uses commonly deployed data connections
Allows a unified dialplan across multiple offices

Speech

Cepstral TTS
Lumenvox ASR

Codecs

ADPCM
CELT (pass through)
G.711 (A-Law & μ-Law)
G.719 (pass through)
G.722
G.722.1 licensed from Polycom®
G.722.1 Annex C licensed from Polycom®
G.723.1 (pass through)
G.726
G.729a
GSM
iLBC
Linear
LPC-10
Speex
SILK

VoIP Protocols

Google Talk
H.323
IAX™ (Inter-Asterisk eXchange)
Jingle/XMPP
MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol
SCCP (Cisco® Skinny®)
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
UNIStim

Traditional Telephony Protocols

E&M
E&M Wink
Feature Group D
FXS
FXO
GR-303
Loopstart
Groundstart
Kewlstart
MF and DTMF support
Robbed-bit Signaling (RBS) Types
MFC-R2 (Not supported. However, a patch is available)

ISDN Protocols

AT&T 4ESS
EuroISDN PRI and BRI
Lucent 5ESS
National ISDN 1
National ISDN 2
NFAS
Nortel DMS100
Q.SIG

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