FreePBX
is a
full-featured PBX web application. If you've looked into Asterisk, you know that
it doesn't come with any "built in" programming. You can't plug a phone into it
and make it work without editing configuration files, writing dialplans, and
various messing about.
FreePBX simplifies this
by giving you pre-programmed functionality accessible by user-friendly web
interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight
away with no programming required. Some of the features that FreePBX supports
out of the box are:
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Unlimited number of Voicemail boxes
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"Follow Me" functionality
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Ring Groups with calls confirmation (so if, eg, a cellphone is out of range
and diverts to voicemail, all the other phones keep ringing)
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Unlimited number of Conferences (limited by available CPU power - about 300
simultaneous users in conferences on a P4 3GHz - 600 with a dual core!)
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Paging and Intercom functionality for man SIP phones that support it.
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Music on Hold (via MP3s, or streamed off the internet)
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Call Queues
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And many other features
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