Forgot one other advantage of do-it-yourself: embedded systems. For
example, I've got a Sheeva Wall Wart. For a VoIP-only solution, it's just
about perfect. But I'm unlikely to find a turnkey solution. With Ubuntu
for Arm, however, I had Asterisk installed with a simple "apt-get". (The
great th
I like Asterisk. A *lot*. And not just because it's cheap, but because
you can get your hands as dirty as you'd like. Unfortunately, most (I'm
tempted to say "all," but lack of proof prevents me) distributions of
Asterisk don't really really let you get in there. Most of them (for
example) cre
Hi Greg,
I hope Fonality has removed the fact that they have a daemon with root
access in PBXtra, which phones home. There has been a lot of press about
that in the past. My previous employer had Fonality for a while... but they
swiched to a non-phone-home version of Asterisk.
I guess I'm a bit
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
wrote:
> 1) Dealing with FairPoint communications for anything has been a
> complete nightmare - delays, misinformation, repeating requests
> without results.
That has been my experience with every ILEC I've ever dealt with.
Large CLECs
== Intro / Background ==
I've inherited an Asterisk (based) system, and I'm pretty happy about
that. On the other hand, it's complicated, new and a critical system
so I'm learning telephony as fast as I can.
I work for a Real Estate company. We have 8 offices and we have ~200
agents in the fiel
