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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Asterisk: The Professional’s PBX</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Asterisk™: The Future of Telephony" /><link rel="up" href="asterisk-CHP-1.html" title="Chapter 1. A Telephony Revolution" /><link rel="prev" href="asterisk-CHP-1-SECT-3.html" title="Asterisk: The Hacker’s PBX" /><link rel="next" href="asterisk-CHP-1-SECT-5.html" title="The Asterisk Community" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Asterisk: The Professional’s PBX</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asterisk-CHP-1-SECT-3.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 1. A Telephony Revolution</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asterisk-CHP-1-SECT-5.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="asterisk-CHP-1-SECT-4"></a>Asterisk: The Professional’s PBX</h2></div></div></div><p>Never in the history of telecommunications has a system so suited to
the needs of business been available, at any price. Asterisk is an
enabling technology and, as with Linux, it will become increasingly rare
to find an enterprise that is not running some version of Asterisk, in
some capacity, somewhere in the network, solving a problem as only
Asterisk can.</p><p>This acceptance is likely to happen much faster than it did with
Linux, though, for several reasons:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Linux has already blazed the trail that led to open source
acceptance. Asterisk is following that lead.</p></li><li><p>The telecom industry is crippled, with no leadership being
provided by the giant industry players. Asterisk has a compelling,
realistic, and exciting vision.</p></li><li><p>End users are fed up with incompatible, limited functionality,
and horrible support. Asterisk solves the first two problems;
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