Developer(s) | Sangoma Technologies Corporation |
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Stable release |
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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 |
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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]
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]
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]
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 . [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: