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Table of content

1. Basics
1.1. What is Asterisk ?
1.2. Systemrequirements for Asterisk Server
1.3. Softphones, Hardphones, Telephony interface cards
1.3. Which Version of Asterisk exists
1.4. How to download and install Asterisk
1.5. Asterisk Directories

2. Configuration of asterisk
2.1 Where do i find the files and directories
2.2 First start of asterisk
2.3 How to start asterisk automatically
2.4 CLI - the asterisk monitor

3. The Dialplan
3.1 Understanding the extensions.conf

4.
AGI Programming
4.1 with Perl
4.2 with PHP

5. Using of MySQL

6. Realtime Configuration

7. Call Detail Records

8. GUI Tools for asterisk

9. System Security and Backup Strategy

10. Asterisk Showcases
10.1 PBX
10.2 ACD for callcenters
10.3 IVR
10.4 VoIP Gateway
10.5 Dialer

Appendix

A. Documentation of applications

B. Asterisk variables

C. Manager API, Action-Responce-Events