FreePBX
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| Developer(s) | FreePBX Project |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.11 |
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | English, Bulgarian Chinese German French Hebrew Hungarian Italian Portuguese Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Swedish Spanish Japanese |
| License | AGPL v3 and GPL v3 |
| Website |
www |
FreePBX is a web-based open source GUI (graphical user interface) that controls and manages Asterisk (PBX), a voice over IP server.[1]
FreePBX is licensed under the GNU General Public License[2][3] and is a component of the FreePBX Distro (a CentOS Linux system with the PBX pre-installed); it is also included as a key piece of various third-party distributions like PBX in a Flash.
FreePBX was taken over by Schmooze.Com in early 2013;[4] that firm was in turn taken over by Sangoma Technologies Corporation on Jan 2, 2015.
Installation
FreePBX can be installed manually or as part of a pre-configured FreePBX Distro that includes the system OS, Asterisk, FreePBX GUI and assorted dependencies:[5]
The following open source distributions include FreePBX:
- The Official FreePBX Distro
- PBX in a Flash
- AsteriskNOW
- Elastix
- trixbox CE (END OF LIFE)
Development
The first release, version 0.2 (November 28, 2004), was named the AMP (Asterisk Management Portal) project. The project was renamed to FreePBX for trademark reasons; Asterisk is a registered trademark of the Digium corporation.
There have been various updates to accommodate new Asterisk releases, new menus and support for additional capabilities such as voice mail, calling queues, fax, multiple languages, DAHDI and a local user directory.
Current versions are:
- FreePBX 2.11 – Completed 2013-05-14- – Adds support for Asterisk 11, Destination popOvers, Module Admin Security Auditing, Chan Motif Module, WebRTC User Control Panel[6]
- FreePBX 12 – BETA Release 2014-06-23- – Adds support for Asterisk 12, New User Control Panel, Module Admin version control, PJSIP Support
Supported hardware manufacturers include Aastra Technologies, Algo, AND, AudioCodes, Cisco Systems, Cyberdata, Digium, Grandstream, Mitel, Panasonic, Polycom, Sangoma, Snom, Xorcom, and Yealink.[7] FreePBX developers estimate the distro has been downloaded 5 million times and deployed in 500,000 active PBX systems.[8]
References
- ↑ Madsen, Leif; Jim Van Meggelen; Russell Bryant (2013). Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition (4th ed.). O'Reilly Media. p. 800. ISBN 978-1-4493-3242-6.
FreePBX, the juggernaut of the Asterisk community. This interface (which is at the heart of many of the most popular Asterisk distributions, such as AsteriskNOW, Elastix, the FreePBX Distro, and PBX in a Flash), is unarguably a very large part of why Asterisk has been as successful as it has. With the FreePBX interface, you can configure and manage many aspects of an Asterisk system without touching a single configuration file. While we purists may like everyone to work only with the config files, we recognize that for many, learning Linux and editing these files by hand is simply not going to happen. For those folks, there is FreePBX, and it has our respect for the important contributions it has made to the success of Asterisk.
- ↑ "Chapter 25. Web Interfaces". Asteriskdocs.org. Retrieved 2013-05-26.
- ↑ Robar, Alex (2009). FreePBX 2.5. Packt Publishing. p. 292. ISBN 978-1-847194-72-5.
- ↑ "Schmooze Com Acquires FreePBX & SIPSTATION". Schmooze Com. February 22, 2013.
- ↑ Gomillion, David Merel, Barrie Dempster, David (2009). Asterisk 1.6 build feature-rich telephony systems with Asterisk. Birmingham, U.K.: Packt Pub. ISBN 9781847198631.
Making Asterisk Easy to Manage; CentOS; Preparation and installation; What is FreePBX?; FreePBX preparation and installation; FreePBX System Status Dashboard; Tools
- ↑ "Milestone 2.11 - FreePBX - Trac". FreePBX. Retrieved 2013-05-26.
- ↑ snom Phones Now Interoperable with Schmooze Com, Inc. Unified Communications Systems (press release), 2012, PR Web
- ↑ Telephony features... TMC.net