Asterisk Fast Start

Get up to speed quickly on Asterisk technology.

Course Objectives

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with Asterisk and the environment in which it operates, both in terms of operating system and telephony (traditional and IP) connections — and to acquaint participants with the installation, configuration and basic operation of Asterisk. This course will take students (who do not need to have previous experience with Linux, telephony or Asterisk) from a freshly installed Linux PC through to a fully configured and working Asterisk implementation.

The emphasis is on the practical implementation, and not necessarily a detailed understanding of every element of an Asterisk deployment or the detailed workings of the underlying technologies involved — this can be obtained, if desired, subsequent to the course by further research.

At the end of the training class, participants will be able to:

Identify the purpose and primary functionality of Asterisk as a PBX and as an application development platform
List the functionality associated with a traditional PBX
Explain the background to Asterisk in terms of the history of Digium and the Open Source community of which it is a part
Define the operating system environments in which Asterisk is developed and supported
Describe the telephony connections which Asterisk supports and identify the Digium hardware needed to effect this connectivity
Identify the basic characteristics of analog and digital PSTN connections and how VoIP compares and contrasts with these
Install and run Asterisk from the packages available for download from www.asterisk.org
Configure Asterisk to deliver basic PBX functionality including basic call routing, voicemail and directory services
Learn the basics of Linux in order to be an effective Asterisk administrator

Course Prerequisites

This is an entry-level course; there are no prerequisites to attend this training.