How Many Asterisk Deployments?

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I know that there is no way to determine an exact number, or even a close number, but does anyone know a ballpark figure of how many Asterisk deployments are out there worldwide? How about the percentage of Asterisk PBX’s compared to the total number of PBX‘s out there? Do our friends at Digium ever think about things like this?

2 thoughts on - How Many Asterisk Deployments?

  • Well, I’d guess everyone who administers or co-administers an Asterisk PBX at work probably also has one at home for experimenting on (whether or not it’s patched through to their office system); perhaps even with some antique telephones plugged into it via an FXS card …..

  • Hi AJ

    To try for a more numeric response I did a quick check on ShodanHQ shows the following PBX counts – I am sure it is not a complete count but kind of gives a minimum as many do not show the server type where Shodan can find it.

    *PBX type (search term) Count*

    asterCC

    139

    Asterisk

    73,819

    AsteriskNOW

    2,083

    Astimax

    46

    Elastix

    187

    Freepbx

    42

    Other

    32

    Piaf

    16

    PIKA

    899

    TrixBox

    95

    VoiceOne

    51

    VoipNow

    754

    XVB

    265

    *Total Asterisk based PBXs *

    *78,428*

    Hope this helps, Eric