On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:05:47PM -0400, Al Baker wrote: > Remember - True TELCO grade systems simply cannot be compared to > anything else. You want the reliability , uptime, and all the bells > and whistles of true Carrier Grade Hardware/Software then you pay for > it. If you want something "you" can tinker under the hood with and > do some cool stuff with, Asterisk is it. BUT - by it need NORTEL PBX > reliability or the power and flexibility of a big Rockwell ACD, get > out your check book. The two are not the same.
Sure. But even commercial PBX/Hybrid stuff is often more robust than Asterisk-on-a-PC (I don't have enough anecdotes on appliances, though I expect they'd be better). Now, yes, carrier-grade equipment can be as complex and still 4-nines reliable (or 5-nines :-), but we're now talking NEBS, -48VDC, 23-inch racks, and 6-digit-plus price tags. And for what it's worth, at my new job I babysit about a 16-machine cluster running VICIdial for close to 200 agents, and by and large, it just runs. It's got about 20 T-1s feeding it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users