Description of call model: Incoming Call: Channel backend waits for a RING or equivalent on some sort of interface. Typically this is done in its own thread. When a RING is detected, the backend should create a channel…

The Asterisk Manager TCP/IP API – AMI ===================================== The manager is a client/server model over TCP. With the manager interface, you’ll be able to control the PBX, originate calls, check mailbox status, monitor channels and queues as well…

The Local channel —————– chan_local is a pseudo-channel. Use of this channel simply loops calls back into the dialplan in a different context. Useful for recursive routing. * Syntax: Local/extension@context[/n] Adding "/n" at the end of the string…

As of 2004-12-23, this documentation is no longer maintained. The doxygen documentation generated from linkedlists.h should be referred to in its place, as it is more complete and better maintained. 2nd version, implemented as macros. include <asterisk/linkedlists.h> AST_LIST_ENTRY…

Inter-Asterisk eXchange Protocol ================================ Usage: ====== The format for the dialing string on Asterisk is: IAX/[user@]peer[:exten[@context]] (Note, []’s denote optional fields). The peer is either an IP address or a peer as specified in the /etc/asterisk/iax.conf file. Exten…

The Asterisk dialplan ===================== The Asterisk dialplan is divided into contexts. A context is simply a group of extensions. For each "line" that should be able to be called, an extension must be added to a context. Then,…

SafiServer: Open Source Asterisk Based IVR Engine The SafiServerSafiServer is a standalone application server that supports a broad range of telephony applications and serves as the platform upon which everything from call routing to complex database driven IVRs…