Open Source PBX systems
Open source PBX systems
You might be interested in Asterisk PBX systems, but did you know that there are other open source PBX systems besides Asterisk?
Well there is and many of the alternative open source PBX systems are growing in popularity each day.
Let’s take a look…
Open Source PBX system alternatives
In addition to Asterisk (which is the most widely known and used open source PBX) there are over 100 open source PBX systems available to you today. While there’s not enough space to talk about all 100 open source PBX systems, here are a few of the more popular ones:
- trixbox ce. Formerly Asterisk @ Home, Linux / Asterisk based open source PBX platform created by Andrew Gillis. Acquired by Fonality.
- Pingtel. Linux based open source PBX that was recently acquired by Nortel.
- FreeSWITCH. open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch. It can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server to host IVR applications using simple scripts or XML to control the callflow.
- Yate.Open Source telephony platform from Romaina.
- Call weaver. Community-driven vendor-independent cross-platform open source PBX software project.
- PBX in a FLASH. High-performance turnkey open source PBX that’s easy to upgrade with dozens of add on scripts to provide virtually any feature you can imagine.
- Elastix. Appliance software that integrates the best tools available for open source-based PBXs into a single, easy-to-use interface.
- Druid. Open source unified communications platform, built around technology such as Asterisk, IMAP, XMPP.
Many of the above mentioned open source PBX systems have their roots in Asterisk. This means that they have decided to take Asterisk and roll their own contributions into the source code.
