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Visual Dialplan 2.2 review by VOIP IP Telephony

January 7th 2009

“Visual Dialplan for Asterisk greatly reduces the manual work you need to do in Asterisk dial plan development. The Application comes a component library and is the best modeling environment I have seen so far. To design a dialplan, you simply drag and drop components as needed. It also comes with dial plan samples, validation engine and one click deployment! In addition to Asterisk, it supports trixbox, PIAF and Elastix.”

“Also provided with the application is the dialplan upgrade functionality which makes dialplan upgrades to match your server a breeze. Just select which Asterisk server version you want to upgrade the dialplan to and Visual Dialplan will take care of the rest.”

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Visual Dialplan in top 25 VoIP innovations of 2008

January 5th 2009

voip-news.com, by Robert Poe

“The VoIP industry, like most others, felt the impact of the 2008 economic crisis. Promising startups laid off employees. Some even shut down. But VoIP companies had an advantage many others didn’t: their capacity for intense innovation. That ability let them provide products and services that could help struggling businesses of all sorts, and even individuals, save money and work in new and better ways.”

“Using Asterisk IP PBX software can let a small company build a phone system on the cheap. But Asterisk can be hard to use, particularly when it comes to setting up dial plans or call flows. The unappealing options include learning to program using the text-based Asterisk dial-plan syntax, or hiring someone to do it for you.
Apstel LLC’s Visual Dialplan provides a graphical interface that makes it easy to set up call flows without being an Asterisk geek.”

View complete text and list of top 25 VoIP innovations of 2008.

Visual Dialplan 2.2 is here, now with support for Asterisk 1.6 and automatic dialplan upgrade functionality

December 16th 2008

Visual Dialplan for Asterisk is next generation development platform for Asterisk dial plan 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 trixbox, PIAF and Elastix. It even learns about Asterisk server configuration, pre-populates library components with configuration data and validates the dial plan accordingly.

Starting from v2.2 Visual Dialplan supports the latest Asterisk 1.6 distribution and comes with easy to use dialplan upgrade functionality – never again bother with the new syntax or changes in the dialplan that usually comes with every major Asterisk release. Just decide what version you want to upgrade the dialplan to and Visual Dialplan will take care of the rest. Or if there is a component in your dialplan that requires manual upgrade, because it is deprecated or abandoned, Visual Dialplan will help you again by suggesting the new component you should use to replace the abandoned one.

Full functional trial version of Visual Dialplan is available for download here.

Rate My Dialplan Contest – Win a phone or copies of Apstel Visual Dialplan

December 4th 2008

Submit your best, most organized and beautifully crafted IVR diagram for an Asterisk or similar VOIP PBX phone system. The top three overall diagrams with the most overall votes will be selected as the winners and will be awarded the following prizes:

  • 1st place: Visual Dialplan Professional license
  • 2nd place: An Aastra 57I IP telephone
  • 3rd place: Visual Dialplan Standard license

The contest is going to be running from December 5th 2008 through February 5th 2009. You can submit your phone system IVR diagram entries either at the Rate My Dial Plan website (www.ratemydialplan.com) or by e-mail at diagrams@ratemydialplan.com.

Read the full contest announcement at www.voipphreak.ca . 

 

Visual Dialplan 2.1 comes with support for trixbox, PIAF, Elastix etc.

November 5th 2008

Visual Dialplan for Asterisk is next generation development platform for Asterisk dial plan development.

It comes with drag-and-drop visual modeling environment and large component library, handy dial plan samples, powerful validation engine, and single button deployment functionality. It even learns about Asterisk server configuration, pre-populates library components with configuration data and validates dial plan accordingly.

Visual Dialplan is the only Asterisk GUI that provides full access to Asterisk dialplan potential.

Starting from v2.1 you can develop Asterisk dial plans using Visual Dialplan and then deploy it directly to your trixbox, PBX In a Flash or Elastix server. Simply create extensions, voicemails and trunks using the web GUI and than do all the dial plan magic with Visual Dialplan.

Full functional trial version is available for download at www.apstel.com/download-visual-dialplan-professional