Software:FreePBX Distro

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FreePBX Distro
FreePBX Distro
Developer(s)Sangoma Technologies Corporation
Stable release
  • SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2208-2[1]
/ 2 August 2022 (2 years ago) (2022-08-02)
Operating systemLinux
Available inEnglish, Bulgarian, Chinese, German, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Spanish
TypeVoice over IP softswitch
LicenseFreeware
Websitewww.freepbx.org/freepbx-distro

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

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