Software:FreePBX Distro
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| Developer(s) | Sangoma Technologies Corporation |
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| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | English, Bulgarian, Chinese, German, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Spanish |
| Type | Voice over IP softswitch |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www |
The FreePBX Distro is a freeware unified communications software system that consists of a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring, controlling, and managing Asterisk PBX software. The FreePBX Distro includes packages that offer VoIP, PBX, Fax, IVR, voice-mail and email functions.
The FreePBX Distro Linux distribution is based on CentOS, which maintains binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreePBX has contributed to the popularity of Asterisk.[2]
Installation
The Official FreePBX Distro is installed from a CD-ROM image available by web download, that includes the system CentOS, Asterisk, FreePBX GUI and assorted dependencies.[3]
Support for telephony hardware
The FreePBX Distro has built-in support for cards from multiple vendors, including Digium, OpenVox, Alto, Rhino Equipment, Xorcom and Sangoma.[4][5]
The FreePBX Distro supports a large number of phone models via open-source modules.[5][6]
Development
FreePBX made its debut in 2004 as the AMP project (Asterisk Management Portal). The FreePBX Distro was released in 2011 as an All-In-One solution for building a PBX using Asterisk, CentOS and FreePBX.[7][8][9]
FreePBX has over 1 million active production PBXs and over 20,000 new systems added each month.[10] Supported PBX phone manufacturers include Aastra Technologies, Algo, AND, Audiocodes, Cisco Systems, Cyberdata, Digium, Grandstream, Mitel, Panasonic, Polycom, Sangoma, Snom, Xorcom and Yealink (zh).[11]
The core telephony engine is Asterisk (PBX), as configured by the Open Source FreePBX GUI.[12]
The latest stable release is FreePBX Distro Stable SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2208-2[13] based on these main components:
- FreePBX 16
- CentOS 7.8
- Asterisk 16, 18 or 19
References
- ↑ "SNG7 PBX16 Release Notes". https://wiki.sangoma.com/display/PPS/SNG7+PBX16+Release+Notes.
- ↑ Web Interface; O'Reilly
- ↑ Video 7511; TMC.net
- ↑ beta 2 announcement ; December 12, 2012 article; FreePBX; retrieved December 2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The 159
- ↑ GitHub
- ↑ Video 5733; TMC.net
- ↑ FreePBX to Release Their Own Distro ; March 28, 2011 article; WordPress; retrieved
- ↑ FreePBX ; Asterisk.net
- ↑ Telephony features...; TMC.net
- ↑ PR Web
- ↑ Good News...; TMC.net
- ↑ "Downloads | FreePBX". https://www.freepbx.org/downloads/. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
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