Apstel Announces Availability of Visual Dialplan Professional for Asterisk PBX
Creating IVRs and call flows for Asterisk PBX is now easier than ever
Online, April 3, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Concentrating on changing the way Asterisk interacts with users, Apstel is paving the way to easier Asterisk usage and adoption by providing visual tools and solutions for its management.
Visual Dialplan for Asterisk is next generation development platform for Asterisk dialplan development. It comes with drag-and-drop visual modeling environment and large component library, handy dial plan samples, powerful validation engine, single button deployment functionality and support for Free PBX, trixbox, PIAF and Elastix. It even learns about Asterisk server configuration, pre-populates library components with configuration data and validates the dial plan accordingly.
The latest product in their product line, Visual Dialplan Professional 3.3, comes with Apstel Integration Server, powerful application server that extends Asterisk dialplan with new functionality and simplifies work with all major databases (MS SQL, MySQL, Postgres, Sybase, HSQL, etc.), email servers (Gmail, Sendmail, Exim etc.) and credit card processors (Authorize.net).
Integration Server is standalone server application that communicates with Asterisk server through AGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface) and acts as an AGI server that completes AGI requests initiated from Asterisk dial plan. These AGI calls can be simple database queries (database IS module) or SMTP send email requests (email IS module), or other advanced functionalities depending on the modules loaded in the Integration Server.
Visual Dialplan Professional deploys traditional extensions.conf code to the Asterisk server. In case the Integration Server functionality is required this code will contain AGI calls to Integration Server. At the same time, Visual Dialplan Professional deploys resources to Integration Server required for those AGI calls.
When new call arrives at the Asterisk server the dial plan is executed and AGI request are sent to the IS. IS executes appropriate module (execute queries, send emails, etc.) and returns resulting value and control back to the Asterisk dial plan.
Full functional free of charge version of Visual Dialplan Professional can be downloaded from their web site at http://apstel.com/download .