Main portion of the advantages of the Asterisk server appears from it being an open source downloadable product. Most of the users, especially business people, can find it difficult to understand the idea behind this principle, or free software, but a business models behind open source are different and specific, as in case with Asterisk server.
IceHook provides modular, cloud based applications to telecom service providers that: manage rates, automate the offsite storage of CDR''s, and provide near real time routing analysis.