Asterisk Courses  
 

Asterisk® Training is available to provide you with a high-level knowledge of Asterisk and what it can do for you. Higher-level courses teach you how to install, configure, tune, and maintain a complete Asterisk system. dCAP-certification (Digium-Certified Asterisk Professional) is also available, allowing you to bring a new skill set to your career or company.

  
     
  Asterisk Fast Start  
  Get up to speed quickly on Asterisk technology.  
  Course Objectives  
 
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with Asterisk and the environment in which it operates, both in terms of operating system and telephony (traditional and IP) connections — and to acquaint participants with the installation, configuration and basic operation of Asterisk. This course will take students (who do not need to have previous experience with Linux, telephony or Asterisk) from a freshly installed Linux PC through to a fully configured and working Asterisk implementation.
  
     
 

The emphasis is on the practical implementation, and not necessarily a detailed understanding of every element of an Asterisk deployment or the detailed workings of the underlying technologies involved — this can be obtained, if desired, subsequent to the course by further research.

  
     
  At the end of the training class, participants will be able to:  
 
• Identify the purpose and primary functionality of Asterisk as a PBX and as an application development platform
• List the functionality associated with a traditional PBX
• Explain the background to Asterisk in terms of the history of Digium and the Open Source community of which it is a part
• Define the operating system environments in which Asterisk is developed and supported
• Describe the telephony connections which Asterisk supports and identify the Digium hardware needed to effect this connectivity
• Identify the basic characteristics of analog and digital PSTN connections and how VoIP compares and contrasts with these
• Install and run Asterisk from the packages available for download from www.asterisk.org
• Configure Asterisk to deliver basic PBX functionality including basic call routing, voicemail and directory services
• Learn the basics of Linux in order to be an effective Asterisk administrator
 
     
 

Course Prerequisites

 
 

This is an entry-level course; there are no prerequisites to attend this training.

  
     
  Asterisk Bootcamp  
  Turn new recruits into Asterisk gurus.  
  The Asterisk Bootcamp is a five day course which covers in-depth the key points of Asterisk installation, configuration, and administration. The course begins with an in-depth review of Asterisk as an application, a project, and a community. It goes on to teach the student to download, compile, install and tune Asterisk; to connect it with both end-user devices (phones) and the outside world.  
     
  Students will learn to create dial plans, to implement applications, and to make use of the long list of features which are included with Asterisk. At the end of the course, students should be able to create a working Asterisk system from a standard Linux computer, configure the system to support end users connected via multiple technologies, and to handle all necessary adds, moves and changes.  
     
 

Course Goal

 
  The Asterisk Bootcamp is designed to prepare Linux/Unix consultants, interconnect vendors, enterprise IT personnel , and ITSP/telco systems administrators to install, configure, manage and troubleshoot Asterisk-based VoIP systems.  
     
  Certification Offered  
 

The DCAP program is offered at the end of the Asterisk Bootcamp and Asterisk Advanced training course or can be taken separately. Please note that taking the Bootcamp or Asterisk Advanced course does not guarantee that you will pass the dCAP exam.

  
     
  Prerequisites: Linux (beginner to intermediate) knowledge and Linux command line