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Asterisk (News - Alert), the open-source framework for building communications applications, powers many of the IP applications in the market today. Future Hosting, a specialized VPS hosting and SaaS application hosting provider, has joined the fray with a range of Asterisk-based VoIP and PBX (News - Alert) hosting plans aimed at businesses of all sizes.

Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers other apps, and is used by small businesses, large businesses, call centers, carriers and governments worldwide. It supports customization thanks to its modular nature, and is often used to replace legacy telephony services with a configurable IP telecom solution.

“Our SaaS (News - Alert) application hosting plans offer a more flexible solution than other vendors,” said Maulesh Patel, vice president of operations of Future Hosting. “Every business has a unique set of requirements, and a one-size-fits-all approach can’t meet the needs of everyone.

Future Hosting’s Asterisk-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform allows businesses to deploy a hosted VoIP and business phone system, along with a backend infrastructure that includes Pure SSD storage. The hosted applications also provide a full server environment with root access.

“Our application hosting offers the same straightforward deployment and ease-of-use as traditional SaaS products, but with far more flexibility — clients are able to alter the server environment and application configuration, or, if they prefer, use the optimized, secure configuration we provide,” Patel added.

Future Hosting’s global hosting infrastructure leverages five data centers and points of presence on three continents: in the U.S., Europe and Australia. The Asterisk SaaS application hosting plans thus include a range of virtual private servers, each running CentOS and a secure, pre-configured installation of Asterisk.

Asterisk hosting clients can also take advantage of the company’s renowned Future Protect continuous data protection backup service.