AsteriskNOW 1.4.0 Beta

AsteriskNOW helps you install Asterisk in 30 minutes or less. The most popular open source PBX software, Asterisk, can now be easily configured with a graphical interface.

AsteriskNOW is an open source Software Appliance; a customized Linux distribution that includes Asterisk, the Asterisk GUI, and all other software needed for an Asterisk system.

Asterisk is a complete IP PBX in software. It runs on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX including many advanced features that are often associated with high end (and high cost) proprietary PBXs.

Asterisk supports Voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
Asterisk and AsteriskNOW are released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL), meaning that they are available for download free of charge.

Asterisk was created by Mark Spencer of Digium, Inc in 1999. Code has been contributed from open source coders around the world, and testing and bug-patches from the community have provided invaluable aid to the development of this software.