PBX

Home or small business phone server with Asterisk and Arch Linux

Submitted by Shaun.Foulkes on Fri, 2017/02/10 - 13:54

Introduction

        Having your own phone server can do many things for you at home or your small business. Asterisk is a free open-source PBX (Private Branch Exchange) that can manage phone calls with voicemail, email notification, blacklisting/call blocking, video conferencing, instant messaging and more. For the purposes of this article we will be covering phone calls using the SIP protocol.