Hello, You can look Wazo, it's a fork of XiVO and it's a powerful graphical PBX with Asterisk. -- Florian Siegenthaler Envoyé depuis mon Fairphone.
On April 19, 2017 5:07:41 AM GMT+02:00, Jai Rangi <[email protected]> wrote: > Well said Alex > >On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:06 PM Alex Epshteyn <[email protected]> >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: [email protected] >> web: www.thirdlane.com >> phone +1 415.261.6601 >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "J Montoya or A J Stiles" <[email protected]> >> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" < >> [email protected]> >> > 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 computer can understand natively (make) >> > and then >> > moving the compiled binary code and configuration files from the >> > Source Code >> > folder to where the computer is expecting for them to be (make >> > install) then >> > you should not have too many problems. >> > >> > It is always preferrable to compile your own Asterisk to fit your >> > hardware and >> > include just the bits you want, rather than rely on anyone else's >> > pre-compiled >> > package. >> > >> > > 4. Which Asterisk version is recommended? >> > >> > The latest one. >> > >> > > And does Asterisk support Windows >> > > ? >> > >> > You can certainly use Windows softphones to talk to Asterisk, but >> > Asterisk >> > itself requires a non-toy underlying operating system. Ubuntu and >> > CentOS are >> > the best-supported Linux distributions. Asterisk has also been >seen >> > working, >> > to greater or lesser extents, on Solaris and the BSDs. But Linux >was >> > the >> > original development environment (although one of the two original >> > projects >> > that ended up merging and becoming Asterisk, many years ago, was >> > originally >> > developed on FreeBSD), and is what most Asterisk telephonistas >know. >> > >> > Any hardware which is capable of running Windows can, of course, >run >> > Linux; >> > and usually better. >> > >> > -- >> > JM or AJS >> > >> > Note: Originating address only accepts e-mail from list! 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