Is Asterisk For You?
Choose the right telephone system – don’t waste your investment
When the first version of Asterisk came out, it was meant only for the technical people. It was difficult for a non-technical person to manage it. After 6 years Asterisk is friendlier and easy to use and manage the daily activities such as moves, adds
and changes to the system through an easy web interface; calls can be recorded on demand; voicemail messages can be sent to the users via email (this is very useful if you are travelling); easily create conferences within the organisation or with people outside.
Asterisk is used in organisations that have as few as 5 users to as high as 5000 users. If you don’t require any sophisticated telephony features including voicemail, then Asterisk is not suitable for you. However, if you want to enjoy the IP (internet protocol), free inter office calls, then Asterisk is an ideal solution.
You should choose Asterisk IP PABX
- if you don’t want to miss any of your important calls
- if you want your callers to have pleasant experience (for you to appear professional)
- if you want your callers to reach the right person every time
- if you want to improve your branding or inform the callers of other products or services you offer
- if you don’t want to miss any of your voice messages
- if you don’t want your callers to get busy tones, when your phones are busy
- if you don’t want your high-paid staff taking messages for others instead of doing their normal job
- if you want your staff to receive their messages immediately
- if you don’t want to replace your phone system when your business grows but want the phone system to grow with you
- if you don’t want to incur high maintenance costs for your phone system
There are other proprietary IP PABX systems available in the market that may cost at least twice as much.