Digium Announces First Complete Online Training Curriculum for Asterisk

Digium, Inc., the Asterisk (News - Alert) company, has introduced Asterisk Essentials, an online training curriculum for Asterisk users.

More than six hours of interactive content that focuses on the fundamentals required to install and configure a basic Asterisk system is provided by the virtual training class.

Application developers and system administrators, through step-by-step technical examples, best-practice recommendations and Asterisk tips are able to gain expertise to build communications systems for their companies or customers.

Created by the Digium (News - Alert) training department, Asterisk Essentials offers various examples and offers developers different ways to implement their own Asterisk solutions using the core interfaces: configuration files, dial plan scripts and the command line interface.

Students will learn to install Asterisk; configure IP phones and VoIP services; create automated attendants; configure voicemail and company directories; set up call queues; and debug Asterisk systems.

The information and best-practice examples offered by the virtual training class, come from the foremost experts on Asterisk, making students confident about everything that they learn.

In a press release, Steve Sokol, director of Asterisk marketing at Digium, said, “Over the last 10 years, Asterisk has been adopted by developers worldwide to create reliable, feature-rich, custom communications solutions for millions of small and medium businesses, enterprises and service providers, at a fraction of the cost of proprietary offerings. During this time, Digium and our global network of training partners have held a range of live, instructor-led courses and have certified attendees who master the use of Asterisk. These courses will continue to be offered, in addition to this convenient online option for users who can’t readily travel or need to learn on their own schedules.”

Asterisk Essentials is available now from the Digium online store for a discounted introductory price of $299.00 through July 1.

In related news, Digium recently announced that it is adding a new listing category to AsteriskExchange, which will be dedicated to custom applications for Switchvox (News - Alert), the company’s line of VoIP business phone systems.

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Edited by Jaclyn Allard