Re: [asterisk-users] PBX selection

[Roamer2998]

Hi all,

Finally we make decision that go with PortSIP, the reasons are below:

1. Support the easy cluster deployment for handle large concurrent calls
and provide
2. All REST API(this is very important to us for integrate the PBX with our
current system), and also offer the rebrand app for free.
3. The multi-tenant arch.

Thanks all for your suggestions, we have learned a lot of !

BR

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Speed Boy  wrote:

>  Hi all, I'm new to VoIP, now we have a project that needs a
>  PBX with client APPs.
> In our team we have argument for choosing PBX. By so far, we
>  have following candidates:
>
> A: Open source
>
>  1) Asterisk PBX (http://www.asterisk.org) (with longest
>  history that almost every one knows it, now the last version using the
> PJSIP stack)
>  2) FreeSwitch (http://www.freeswitch.org) (A lot people
>  recommended it to us)
>
>
> B: Commercial
>
> 1) Vodia PBX (http://www.vodia.com). It comes from SNOM, now
> acquired by a HongKong company now
> 2) PortSIP PBX (http://www.portsip.com/portsip-pbx). It
> also includes VoIP SDK, WebRTC and offer rebranding app for free.
>
> My boss prefers the Open Source PBX since they are free, but
>  our CTO prefers the commercial editions, according to whom
> the business PBX has better support, and the performance
> is good, and easy to use - considering our team all are new to VoIP/PBX.
>
> We have did some searching of Asterisk, here are my questions:
>
> 1. Does the last Asterisk using PJSIP stack ?
> 2. Does there has the comparison of PJSIP and reSIProcate, sofia(using by
> FreeSwicth) ?
> 3. Is it easy to compile and setup Asterisk?
> 4. Which Asterisk version is recommended? And does Asterisk support
> Windows ?
>
> Thanks in advance .
>
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Re: [asterisk-users] PBX selection

[Roamer2998]

Thanks All.

Thanks Alex, we also tested thirdlane PBX, and comparing it with PortSIP
PBX, Vodia PBX, we hope we can make decision next week.

Best regards,

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Alex Epshteyn  wrote:

> The solution you choose should be based on many factors which should
> include your business requirements, team's experience, your budget, growth
> expectations and more.
>
> You can choose Asterisk or Freeswitch as a platform and start building on
> that - but it is not simple and being new to VoIP you are likely to make
> mistakes. The "do-it-yourself" approach will some money initially, but will
> be the most expensive option long term - as you will be denying the economy
> of scale. Bringing a "smart programmer" won't help much as you will also
> create a "lock-in". In fact, this could be worse than a dependency created
> when you use a commercial or a known open source solution as while you
> would still be able to get help from the community for the "base" part of
> your pbx, your custom part will be much harder to deal with.
>
> Our company started building Asterisk based PBX in 2002 and Multi Tenant
> PBX in 2005 - we do this as our core business and are still finding areas
> for improvement :). As your experience with VoIP is minimal I would side
> with your CTO - you should find a solution high enough in the stack to
> avoid the complexity of building it all yourself.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Alex
>
> --
>
> Alex Epshteyn
> email: a...@thirdlane.com
> web: www.thirdlane.com
> phone +1 415.261.6601
>
>
> - Original Message -
> > From: "J Montoya or A J Stiles" 
> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <
> asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 1:40:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] PBX selection
> >
> > On Monday 17 Apr 2017, Speed Boy wrote:
> > >  Hi all, I'm new to VoIP, now we have a project that needs a
> > >  PBX with client APPs.
> > > In our team we have argument for choosing PBX. By so far, we
> > >  have following candidates:
> > >
> > > A: Open source
> > >
> > >  1) Asterisk PBX (http://www.asterisk.org) (with longest
> > >  history that almost every one knows it, now the last version using
> > >  the
> > > PJSIP stack)
> > >  2) FreeSwitch (http://www.freeswitch.org) (A lot people
> > >  recommended it to us)
> > >
> > >
> > > B: Commercial
> > >
> > > 1) Vodia PBX (http://www.vodia.com). It comes from SNOM, now
> > > acquired by a HongKong company now
> > > 2) PortSIP PBX (http://www.portsip.com/portsip-pbx). It
> > > also includes VoIP SDK, WebRTC and offer rebranding app for free.
> > >
> > > My boss prefers the Open Source PBX since they are free,
> > > but our CTO prefers the commercial editions, according to
> > > whom the business PBX has better support, and the
> > > performance is good, and easy to use - considering our team
> > > all are new to VoIP/PBX.
> >
> > Proponents of proprietary solutions always like to say "If an Open
> > Source
> > solution breaks, who can you call?"  The answer is, "Any
> > sufficiently-competent
> > programmer -- it may be broken, but we have all the pieces".  Whereas
> > if you
> > spend money on proprietary software and it breaks, then there is only
> > *one*
> > place you can call -- and you'd better hope they are interested to
> > fix your
> > problem.
> >
> > On the other hand, if you could get full Source Code and Modification
> > Rights
> > (basically, "everything we could do with a GPL program except
> > distribute
> > copies"),  a proprietary solution might not be so bad after all.  But
> > since
> > the goal of most proprietary software vendors is to extract money
> > from you and
> > maintaining you in a state of perpetual helplessness is highly
> > desirable in
> > the course of this, do not expect to get such a deal in real life.
> >
> > > We have did some searching of Asterisk, here are my questions:
> > >
> > > 1. Does the last Asterisk using PJSIP stack ?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > 2. Does there has the comparison of PJSIP and reSIProcate,
> > > sofia(using by
> > > FreeSwicth) ?
> >
> > Not sure about this.  We're still using the original chan_sip driver.
> >
> > > 3. Is it easy to compile and setup Asterisk?
> >
> > It's about as easy as compiling anything from Source Code.  Harder
> > than LAME
> > MP3 encoder, but easier than the Linux kernel.  If you altered
> > `monop` from
> > the BSDgames package to make the streets match your local edition of
> > the game,
> > you will have no problem whatsoever with building Asterisk.
> >
> > If you understand the process of what you are doing -- basically,
> > setting up
> > an automated process that will examine your server hardware and
> > software
> > configuration  (configure),  choosing which parts of Asterisk you
> > want to
> > include  (make menuselect),  compiling the selected human-readable
> > Source Code
> > into binary code that the