Turnkey IP-based PBX announced
September 14, 2005

Mozcom announced the availability of Asterisk during the LinuxWorld Philippines show held at Dusit Hotel. Asterisk is a complete IP-based PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does Voice over IP (VoIP) in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using inexpensive hardware.

Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response and Call Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, SIP and H.323.

Advanced features include an interactive Digital Receptionist, customizable Music-On-Hold, defining call groups, and a web-based management interface. It can even detect and receive faxes; convert it into the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and forward it as email.

Asterisk needs no additional hardware for VoIP. For interconnection with traditional switched telephony equipment, Asterisk supports a number of hardware devices from analog station and central office interfaces, to single and quad span T1 and E1 interfaces for interconnection to PRI lines and channel banks. Users on the road can run SIP or H.232-based software phones on their laptops and connect to the company Asterisk PBX and make intra-office call from anywhere in the word.

"Customers can buy our NetMachine server with Asterisk pre-installed and configured at no additional cost," said Paul Pongco, Mozcom AVP for Network Operations. "We can also assist the client in connecting their Asterisk to 3rd party SIP operators to allow global interconnection to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)."

NetMachine is a line of rack-mountable, open standards-based and very affordable servers ideal for running Linux OS. "You can run your entire messaging platform on our NetMachine server with Asterisk - from your email to your voicemail and fax messages," Pongco added.

For more details, interested parties may visit http://www.mozcom.com/netmachine, email sales@mozcom.com, or call Corporate Sales at Manila: (02)848-2606, Cebu: (032)253-0013, Davao: (082)221-1462 or Baguio: (074)443-9502.

Mozcom was established in 1994, making it the Philippines' 1st commercial ISP. Its nationwide pure-IP backbone was the first of its kind, and to this day, provides the infrastructure that runs corporate virtual private networks (VPNs), the campus network of the major educational and research institutions, and provides true dialup roaming for mobile users from Northern Luzon to Southern Mindanao. For more information, visit http://www.mozcom.com or call (02)848-2606.