John Edwards of VoIP News has provided good inputs for the users who go for Asterisk VoIP services. He gives five top reasons for selecting Asterisk.
These are Lower Costs, Flexible Features and Power Functions, Compatibility with a wide range of Platforms, Free and Abundant Support and finally Continuity.
In fact, the advantage of Asterisk is that you can download the software without any cost. The open source software operates on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Open Free BSD and Sun Solaris.
At the same time, it supports interactive voice response, voice mail, conferencing calling and automatic call distribution.
It has the capability of handling VoIP calls and operates on different kinds of VoIP protocols such as SIP and H323.
