Sunday, January 29, 2012

trixbox

trixbox is the new name of Asterisk@Home. Basically its kind of a software PBX based on Asterisk. Asterisk itself is Linux based software.
Before October 2006 trixbox was working under the name of Asterisk@Home but after that its name was changed. And now it is know as trixbox. The Change in name was because of Digium requests that its developers cease the use of the word "Asterisk"; the renaming was further justified by the fact that the product at that time consisted of much more than just Asterisk.


Versions

trixbox CE
trixbox CE, the community edition founded by Kerry Garrison and Andrew Gillis, is completely free and is
available under a GPLv2 license. It has been downloaded more than any other Asterisk-based PBX system according to SourceForge, with over two million downloads as of August 22, 2009.

trixbox CE was last updated with a beta release, and shortly after a blog post was made by the leader of
development stating he was leaving. Since then, the forums have become inactive and no new releases have been scheduled.

trixbox Pro
trixbox Pro is the commercial version trixbox. Unlike the community edition it contains components for which
the source code is not available. These extra components are geared towards making the software better able to fulfill the needs of larger companies and call centers.

trixbox Appliance
trixbox Appliance is a server appliance available from Fonality which comes preloaded with either trixbox CE or trixbox Pro.