Digium announces a new training course – Asterisk Fast Start. The entry-level course provides an introduction to Asterisk, telephony and the Linux environment, making the world’s most widely used open source telephony software more accessible than ever before.

The goal of the course is to give participants an introduction to Asterisk covering such topics as installation, configuration and the basic operation of Asterisk. Participants do not need a background in Linux, telephony or Asterisk to participate. The course will take participants through all the steps from a freshly installed Linux computer to a fully configured and working Asterisk implementation.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Install and run Asterisk on any computer and act as an Asterisk administrator;
• Configure Asterisk to deliver basic PBX functionality including basic call routing, voice mail and directory services;
• Describe the telephony connections that Asterisk supports and identify the necessary Digium hardware to support such connectivity.

Participants will receive a student kit complete with a Polycom IP telephone and Digium interface cards. Asterisk Fast Start will kick off with its first course on Oct. 13th, offered by David Duffett in Oxford, England. To learn more about Digium Asterisk Fast Start or any of Digium’s offered courses, please visit: http://www.digium.com/en/training/courses/?tab=fast-obj.