System information

want excellent reporting capabilities, you will find a huge industry with many experi-
enced participants.
For a simple interface to the call records, a popular program is CDR-Stats, which is the
successor to the hugely popular Asterisk-Stat package. This open source reporting in-
terface provides a simple way to examine call detail records, and some basic metrics on
calling patterns.
A2Billing
The A2Billing project is not simply a billing interface for Asterisk: it is, in fact, a com-
plete VoIP carrier-in-a-box. This complex and comprehensive product delivers much
of the technology you would need to allow you to provide a VoIP reseller service.
*
The A2Billing platform has been generously released under the AGPL as open source.
The sponsor of the A2Billing project, Star2Billing, offers consultancy services to get
you up to speed faster.
Conclusion
In this brief chapter we have provided some pointers to popular graphical applications
that can be used in conjunction with Asterisk. While we didn’t cover them in detail,
we do acknowledge the importance of FreePBX and the AsteriskGUI, which are both
GUI open source projects that provide a PBX configuration interface on top of Asterisk.
If a full GUI solution for simple PBX configuration interests you, we encourage you to
take a look at them. To give them a try, we recommend using the AsteriskNOW dis-
tribution, which provides both FreePBX and AsteriskGUI as GUI options.
* It cannot provide you with business savvy, experience in running a phone company, or automatic security,
though, so please don’t think that all you have to do is download A2Billing and you can take on AT&T!
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