FreePBX Open Telephony Training Seminar in Las Vegas, NV - May 20-23rd, 2008

FreePBX is a full-featured PBX web application. If you've looked into Asterisk, you know that it doesn't come with any "built in" programming. You can't plug a phone into it and make it work without editing configuration files, writing dialplans, and various messing about.

FreePBX simplifies this by giving you pre-programmed functionality accessible by a user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming required. Some of the features that FreePBX supports out of the box are:

• Unlimited number of Voicemail boxes
• "Follow Me" functionality
• Ring Groups with calls confirmation (so if, eg, a cellphone is out of range and diverts to voicemail, all the other phones keep ringing)
• Unlimited number of Conferences (limited by available CPU power - about 300 simultaneous users in conferences on a P4 3ghz - 600 with a dual core!)
• Paging and Intercom functionality for man SIP phones that support it.
• Music on Hold (via MP3s, or streamed off the internet)
• Call Queues
• And many other features

Some screenshots are available, to see what it looks like


FreePBX is built on the LAMPA™ stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Asterisk). It's a modular system, with click-to-install plugins downloadable over the internet from the online module repository.

FreePBX Features at a Glance:

• Add or change extension and voicemail accounts in seconds
• Native support of SIP, IAX, and ZAP clients (other endpoints are supported through custom extensions)
• Supports all Asterisk supported trunk technologies
• Reduce long distance costs with LCR
• Route incoming calls based on time-of-day
• Create interactive Digital Receptionist (IVR) menus
• Design sophisticated call groups
• Manage callers with Queues
• Upload custom on-hold music (MOH)
• Search company directory, based on first or last name
• Detect and receive incoming faxes
• Share administrative duties
• Backup and Restore your system
• Save audio recordings of calls
• View call detail reporting with asterisk-stat
• View extension and trunk status with Flash Operator Panel
• View conversation recordings with Asterisk Recording Interface (ARI)

Project Sponsored by Atengo LLC

Resources

• Project website: http://www.freepbx.org
• Getting Support (on the FreePBX wiki)
• Screen Shots
• FreePBX End-user documentation
• AMP Resellers
• Asterisk
• Asterisk GUI

Notes

• Caller name lookup script for Asterisk 1.4 and FreePBX 2.3.0