Hi, I was looking round on the Internet and saw there was no definitive list of free applicationsavailable for use with Asterisk, so I thought I'd compile a list for you all. If there's anythingthat you know of that is actively maintained but not in the list below, let me know (bear in mindI'm not including distros or Asterisk packagings in this list).
Hopefully there are a few programs in the list that even the most seasoned Asterisk professionalshave not seen before.
Flash Operator PanelFlash Operator Panel is a switchboard type application for the Asterisk PBX. It runs on a web browser with the flash plugin. It is able to display information about your PBX activity in real time. The layout is configurable (button sizes and colors, icons, etc). You can have more than 100 buttons active per screen. On the Live Demo there are 28 buttons defined. It also supports contexts: you can have one server running and many different client displays (for hosted PBX, different departments, etc). It can integrate with CRM software, by poping up a web page (and passing the CLID) when a specified button is ringing.
PHP AGIAGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface) is a way of running programs or scripts which are external to Asterisk. PHP AGI is a library for PHP which simplifies writing AGI scripts.
Web MeetmeWeb-MeetMe is a suite of PHP pages to allow for scheduling and managing conferences on an Asterisk PBX.
OrekaOreka is a modular and cross-platform system for recording and retrieval of audio streams. The project currently supports VoIP and sound device based capture. Recordings metadata can be stored in any mainstream database. Retrieval of captured sessions is web based.
FreePBXFreePBX is a full-featured PBX web application. If you've looked intoAsterisk, you know that it doesn't come with any "built in"programming. You can't plug a phone into it and make it work withoutediting configuration files, writing dialplans, and various messingabout.
FreePBX simplifies this by giving you pre-programmed functionalityaccessible by a user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have afully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programmingrequired.
FreePBX also comes as a distro
Areski CDR StatsAsterisk-Stat is a visualisation layer for Asterisk CDR statistics which are pulled from adatabase. It provides graphs as well as allowing you to get more information on individual calls.
sipsaksipsak is a small command line tool for developers and administrators of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications. It can be used for some simple tests on SIP applications and devices.
Asterisk PhoneBookA common shared phone book directory based on CMS/LAMP and build for Asterisk PBX, store name and number into MySQL which will be used by each workstation browser, also by telephones with embedded XML-browser feature.
Asterisk Desktop AssistantAsterisk Desktop Assistant is a desktop call management application for Windows PCs. Asterisk Desktop Assistant (ADA) is Digium?s first step towards offering a comprehensive Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) suite. It makes dialing and handling phone calls simpler and faster by adding click-to-call functionality into popular desktop applications. It also adds call notifications directly to the Windows desktop.
A2BillingA2Billing combined with Asterisk now gives any Telecom company a very good reason to consider the A2Billing Soft-Switch over the traditional offerings for TDM and VoIP Soft-Switches as well as wholesale and IP PBX billing, particularly when you consider the cost of A2Billing ? FREE!
AstBillAstBill is not only a free web-based, user friendly billing interface for Asterisk and VOIP. It is also a Asterisk configuration and GUI management tool and a standardized implementation of Asterisk using REALTIME and static configuration as you please.
OSLECOslec is an open source high performance line echo canceller. When used with Asterisk it works well on lines where the built-in Zaptel echo canceller fails. No tweaks like rxgain/txgain or fxotrain are required. Oslec is supplied as GPL licensed C source code and is free as in speech.
Oslec partially complies with the G168 standard and runs in real time on x86 and Blackfin platforms. Patches exist to allow any Zaptel or DAHDI compatible hardware to use Oslec. It has been successfully tested on hardware ranging from single port X100P FXO cards to dual E1 systems.
AppKonferenceAppKonference is a high-performance Asterisk voice/video conferencing module. It's basicallya drop in replacement for meetme - although does things a little differently and doesn't requirea timing source.
OutCallOutCALL was designed as a commercial appplication allowing Asterisk users integration with Microsoft Outlook with placing and receiving phone calls.
After over 1000 downloads as a free application, Bicom Systems Ltd. has decided to offer OutCALL in open source format in order to further stimulate development of Asterisk and related open source projects.
VMuktiVMukti is leading Asterisk/ Yate enabled p2p Video IP Communications Suite for Web / PSTN. These serverless broadband ready platform enable OS community to save 90% on capital & operating costs over proprietary software for conferencing & Call Center.
Note from editor: I've personally never managed to get this working - drop me a lineif you do get it all set up and going.
Asterisk-CRMasterCRM is a call center software for asterisk based VoIP system, also it has some CRM functions. It provides useful features such as pop-up, predictive dialer, click to call, extension status .... astercrm could work with all asterisk based system.
AsterCCastercc is a realtime billing solution for asterisk, could work with all kinds of asterisk based system and no need do any change to your original system. astercc could be used for hosted callshop solution, pbx billing solution.
IAXModemIAXmodem is a software modem written in C that uses an IAX channel (commonly provided by an Asterisk PBX system) instead of a traditional phone line and uses a DSP library instead of DSP hardware chipsets.
Asterisk PBX Integration ZimletAsterisk PBX Integration Zimlet is an Extension for Zimbra Collaboration Suite. The Zimlet does Interface with the Asterisk Manager Interface to integrate with Asterisk PBX. The main focus is dial-on-click for Phone numbers inside Contacts and Emails.
AsterFax - Asterisk Email to Fax GatewayAsterFax provides an Email to Fax gateway for Asterisk. AsterFax lets you send an email by Fax. Enter the phone no. in the 'To' address, compose your email message and click send. You can also fax a MS-Word document or other attachment.
Asterisk MonitorAsterisk Monitor is a HTML interface that acts a operator pannel for asterisk to display user/peer status and calls. This uses a reverse AJAX, PHP and Python to originate, transfer and hangup calls, manage queues and meetme rooms.
OpenBTSThe OpenBTS Project is an effort to construct an open-source GSM basestation using the USRP and the Asterisk VoIP PBX. Our goal is to enable a new type of hybrid GSM/VoIP cellular network for greenfield deployments in the developing world.
Asterisk .NETThe Asterisk .NET library consists of a set of C# classes that allow you to easily build applications that interact with an Asterisk PBX Server (1.0/1.2/1.4 version). Both FastAGI and Manager API supported. .NET/Mono compatible.
AGX's Asterisk Extra AddOnsMaintained version of old asterisk applications ported to 1.4 that for copyright reasons cannot be included into official Digium's releases and that for some reason the author is not keeping up-to-date. The project also require Zaptel instead of DAHDI.
AstTAPIAstTapi, an opensource Asterisk Tapi driver for windows. This allows users of TAPI compliant applications such as Outlook and Act to dial contacts directly from the application using an Asterisk PBX Server.
Asterisk-JavaA java interface for Asterisk - allows you to write software in Java which will work with Asterisk.
IAXClientA lightweight cross platform IP telephony client using the IAX protocol, designed for use with the Asterisk open source PBX.
Asterisk Desktop ManagerA desktop application for managing Asterisk including screen pops etc - looks quite nice but haven't tried it.
Asterisk JTAPIAsterisk-JTAPI is a JTAPI implementation for the Asterisk software PBX system. JTAPI is a provider independent programming interface for Java to build applications for computer telephony or to add support for it. JTAPI covers a wide range of usage scenarios starting from controlling a single telephone to a whole PBX system for example in call-centers.
Asterisk-JTAPI builds on top of two other projects: Asterisk-Java, which provides a Java interface to the Asterisk manager API, and, GJTAPI, which provides a general framework for JTAPI interfaces.
AstmailWeb interface to Asterisk voicemail written in php. Includes some AJAX components such as LDAP-suggest, and user-lookup. Includes screens for forward by email and sms configuration.
DruidDruid is an open source unified communications platform, built around technology such as Asterisk, IMAP, XMPP. Druid gives your organization access to the best available IP communications platform that bringing together voicemail, VOIP, mobile phone, faxes and instant messaging.
ViciDialVICIDIAL is a set of programs that are designed to interact with theAsterisk Open-Source PBX Phone system to act as a completeinbound/outbound call center suite.
The agent interface is an interactive set of web pages that workthrough a web browser to give real-time information and functionalitywith nothing more than an internet browser on the client computer.
Asterisk Queue/CDR Log AnalyzerThe Asterisk Queue (and CDR) Log Analyzer is a set of PHP scripts which allow selecting,listing and graphing of records from the Asterisk Queue and CDR logs via a WEB interface.
For easier access to select specific log records, the Queue and CDR logs need to be ina MySQL database. Asterisk itself records (specified in a conf file) CDR data into aMySQL database table. A Python utility program called loadq.py is provided with thispackage which can be used to load queue log records (as they are created) into a MySQLdatabase table.
Asterisk WEB/PHP Event MonitorThe Asterisk Event Monitor WEB/PHP Interface was created to view thecurrent state of Asterisk and all Asterisk Events via a WEB interface.It does not poll Asterisk for these events, instead it collects them ina MySql database via an Asterisk Manager API python script. AJAX(Javascript) is used to display the events from the database almost asthey occur. All code is released under the GNU GPL license.
Crystal Recording InterfaceCRI (Crystal Clear Recording Interface) provides an intelligence web interface to track is recordings and his voice mail
Features :
Access your voicemail recordings.
Setup your voice mail box
View summary of your incoming outgoing calls
Search calls and recordings by day and time.
Call monitor recordings.
XivoXiVO is a full PBX solution based on Asterisk with a user-friendly webinterface, provisioning tools for many types of phones, CTI daemon andCTI client for Windows, Linux and MacOS. All solutions are releasedunder GPLv3. Currently only released in French, but easy to translatein other languages, XiVO provides administrators with a simple toconfigure phone system.
You can find a demo on
https://demo.xivo.fr with login root and password proformatique so you can try it out for yourself.
On the first page you have a dashboard for monitoring all processes andyou can choose PBX on the menu to administer your PBX. It's not basedon Freepbx or other existing software, it's a full development fromscratch.