The Appliance Distribution

Askozia®PBX was designed from the ground up to be run on embedded appliances. Its WebGUI was also developed with the average user in mind. Why did we start yet another Asterisk® based project? Because a 700MB install CD is useless on an embedded system and not everyone is prepared to take on the Asterisk learning curve.

An Embedded Firmware Solution

AskoziaPBX is more than a GUI. It is an entire Linux distribution targeting embedded systems released as a firmware image. The entire system's configuration is stored in a single XML file eliminating the headache of upgrade paths, system backups and restores as well as provisioning new systems. Upgrading the firmware also takes place in the WebGUI and replaces the entire distro. No more incompatible package versions.

Appliance Oriented

AskoziaPBX only writes to its media (usually flash) when saving the configuration or upgrading firmware. Also, since the entire system is run directly from RAM, impolitely power cycling a running appliance is not a problem. Appliances should "just work." They're meant to be configured and forgotten about.

Low Resource Requirements

Designed from the ground up to be as efficient and compact as possible, the AskoziaPBX firmware is less than 15MB and requires less than 30MB installed on media. It runs on low-resource systems with as little as 200Mhz and 64MB RAM.

Energy Friendly

Low resource requirements result in equally low energy requirements. Many appliances running AskoziaPBX require less than 10 watts. Some require as little as 3 watts.

Multiple CPU Architectures Supported

Currently, images for both x86 and Blackfin CPU architectures can be compiled from our build tree. More architectures are on the way as we support additional vendor's hardware.