> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > The VoIP Connection > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Altigen vs. Asterisk > > > Anybody have any experience with Altigen? How does it stack > up compared to Asterisk (e.g. features, performance, cost, etc.) -Mike
I have used both, hard, so I know a bit about them. Altigen's admin and end-user interfaces are mature and reasonably well-executed. We did have some issues with the logic available for queues and such, but we were flogging that part of their feature set harder than just about anyone ever had, so we were rather like a beta tester on steroids. For the most part though, the PBX functionality just worked. Their VOIP implementation was horrid. It worked, but just barely, and was extemely susceptible to the least little change in network performance. As for costs, Altigen is extremely expensive, compared to an Asterisk/Digium solution. The hardware and licensing costs are several hundred dollars per port. With *, the only comparable cost is the Digium hardwre (and channel banks) required, if any; easily doable for under $100 per port. Asterisk's feature set is much larger, but you must be willing to dig into the docs and learn how to use it, or settle for one of the quickly improving, but feature-limited graphical admin tools. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.0 - Release Date: 05/30/2005 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
