On 10/4/2013 12:36 PM, Barry Roberts wrote:
I'm going to start playing with asterisk and Google Voice just to get back
into it (I haven't used asterisk for 5+ years), but I'm just wondering what
the experts have to say. For a VOIP pbx at home, what would or did you do?
I wouldn't use asterisk, for starters. FreeSWITCH is technically
superior if not simple and easy to learn (it still lags behind on
documentation and community support a bit, but people are great help and
friendly if you don't want your hand held).
Second, Google Voice is nice and all, but it is not a standard API and
they break every once in a while. Even getting it to work in the first
place is technically a hack as you might find out if you go down that
path. You'll learn more and have more flexibility with a simple SIP
trunk. I use Flowroute at work for this and you can get a DID for a
couple bucks + minutes used per month. There are several others out
there with similar cheap-as-all-get pricing.
Basically my entire reasoning here is that after working with both (and
some proprietary systems) in both large and small environments, Asterisk
seems very much like a shoe-horning of what I want to have happen into
their system so that it looks like it happens that way. With FreeSWITCH,
it's literally a connection/session starts, and I do things with it and
other sessions. Obviously that flexibility requires some understanding
on my part, but you said you want to play with a phone system, not setup
a computer to receive calls.
My two cents, anyway.
-Tod Hansmann
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