trixbox (formerly Asterisk@Home) was a software PBX based on

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. trixbox was initially released under the name Asterisk@Home. In October 2006 it was renamed to trixbox after

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requested 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 (end of life)

trixbox CE, the community edition founded by Kerry Garrison and Andrew Gillis, was completely free and was available under a GPLv2 license. It has been downloaded more than any other Asterisk-based PBX system according to

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, 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 Andrew Gillis, founder & leader of development stating he was leaving. In October 2012, Fonality announced that they would no longer support or update trixbox CE, and would instead focus on trixbox Pro. The FreePBX Project announced the availability of scripts to convert existing end of life trixbox CE systems to a current version of

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, an open source PBX platform with ongoing support and development.

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

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trixbox Appliance

trixbox Appliance is a

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available from Fonality which comes preloaded with either trixbox CE or trixbox Pro.

Core technologies

trixbox CE's core technologies include: *

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- The

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on which trixbox is built. *

- Provides the core PBX functionality. *

- Provides a web interface for managing and configuring Asterisk through a web browser. * Flash Operator Panel (FOP) - Provides a graphical overview of current calls and provides controls to operators. This is created with

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and is accessed via a web browser.

Similar software distributions

FreePBX Distro 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, F ...

- Officially maintained Distro of the FreePBX Project * AsteriskNOW - Uses FreePBX GUI Maintained by Digium *

Elastix Elastix is an unified communications server software that brings together IP PBX, email, IM, faxing and collaboration functionality. It has a Web interface and includes capabilities such as a call center software with predictive dialing. The El ...

- Maintained by PaloSanto Solutions based in Ecuador. Uses Forked version of FreePBX GUI *

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- Uses FreePBX maintained by PBX in a Flash Development Team

References

External links

* {{Linux distributions Free VoIP software Telephone exchanges Free business software Communication software Asterisk (PBX)