I would use openser. I supported it for several years for a VoIP startup. It's highly configurable and speaks only SIP. It's only a SIP router (does not do RTP). I never ran in to a SIP provider that did not support it. On Feb 23, 2013 9:36 AM, "Michael Torrie" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/22/2013 11:03 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > > Where > > FreeSWITCH gets into trouble is their community is much more "rtfm" and > > less hand-holdy than Asterisk, though several of the community are more > > than friendly, and they REALLY know their stuff for the most part. > > Several years ago I had occasion to ask a few questions on the asterisk > IRC channel and I found at least one of their main "experts" to be > extremely RTFM-ish. He kept telling me I didn't know what I was talking > about, when in fact it was he who didn't understand what I was asking. > When I pushed back a bit he got all angry and basically said what I > wanted to do was stupid anyways. Really soured me to asterisk. > > I've since learned that Asterisk really sucks at what I wanted to do. > Basically I wanted to have a dialplan that could take a number, say BYU > phone numbers, and turn them into url-based addresses > ([email protected]) but pass them through a sip provider trunk instead > of talking to sip.byu.edu directly. Unfortunately Asterisk just cannot > deal with urls in their dialplans. It's a major weakness in asterisk, > though an understandable one since telephones have number pads only > typically. Anyay on IRC I was told to just use sip.byu.edu as a trunk > and places the calls directly (since sip.byu.edu knows what to do with > the numbers). The folks on IRC berated me for even wanting to do what I > needed to do. Just fix my stupid firewall he said (which was outside my > control). > > Of course if BYU actually registered their numbers with the ENUM service > (DNS for SIP), then I could have simply used, say, sipgate.com as a > trunk and they could use ENUM to figure out a no-cost dialing path. But > since BYU doesn't (or hadn't at the time) I was kind of stuck. > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
