Elastix 2.2 The VoIP server in home or in the office

Elastix has multiple features and functionalities related with all the services available: IP Telephony, Mail Server, Fax Server, Conferences, Instant Messaging Server, among others. New features, functionalities and Services are added at the development of new versions.

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Elastix is an Open Source Sofware to establish Unified Communications. About this concept, Elastix goal is to incorporate all the communication alternatives, available at an enterprise level, into a unique solution.

Unified Communications With Elastix

The Elastix project begun as a call report interface for Asterisk and was released in March of 2006. Later that year the project evolved into an Asterisk Based distro.

Telephony was the traditional way that lead communications the last century, that’s why many Companies and users focus their requirements on their necessities to establish telephony communications on their organizations, and confuse unified communications “distros” with a telephone exchange system. Elastix, not only provides telephony, it integrates other communication alternatives to make your organization environment more productive and efficient.

Elastix include the following communication media:

Features

There are new ways of communication every day and the addition of features and functionality must be constant. Elastix it’s capable of establish an efficient environment on your organization with the addition of many features that allows to integrate other locations of your company to centralize your business and take it global. A user in your corporation located in South America shares the same functionalities of another located in Asia besides having direct internal communication.

Some of the basic Features of Elastix include:

• Voicemail
• Fax-to-email
• Support for softphones
• Web Interface Configuration
• Virtual conference rooms
• Call recording
• Least Cost Routing
• Extension Roaming
• PBX Interconnection
• Caller ID
• CRM
• Advance Reports