My current job is to design servers for hosting Asterisk. From my experience, it's the best PBX software around.
There's a bunch of alternatives such as sipX (www.sipfoundry.org/sipX/). Never used them, but since Asterisk such a big community already, I would advise you to stick with it. Development is solid, it's evolving fast, and once you get the hang of it, it's a breeze, like using Apache. Speaking of which, don't let these "magic interfaces" for Asterisk administration trick you into believing it's a way to go. They make it easy for you to deliver an end product to a customer who is more or less into it (there's really no such thing as a wizard-like interface for Asterisk yet). To get a good grip, deal with the conf files as you would do with any popular service: with a good text editor =) and then, you'll be writing your own interfaces in a month. SIP, IAX, and RTP are protocols just like, say, HTTP (but they're UDP). There's no mystery when dealing with them if you know how networking works. I never read a single tutorial in my life on how to make asterisk work behind NAT. Got it done in a day just by reading the comments in the sip.conf file. On 8/24/05, Michael Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day... > > Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source > PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting? > > Thanks! > > Regards, > Michael Kraus > Software Developer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Wild Technology Pty Ltd , ABN 98 091 470 692 > Sales - Ground Floor, 265/8 Lachlan Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 > Admin - Level 4 Tiara, 306/9 Crystal Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 > Telephone 1300-13-9453 | Facsimile 1300-88-9453 > http://www.wildtechnology.net > DISCLAIMER & CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this email > message and any attachments may be confidential information and may also be > the subject of client legal - legal professional privilege. If you are not > the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of > this material is unauthorised and prohibited. This email and any > attachments are also subject to copyright. No part of them may be > reproduced, adapted or transmitted without the written permission of the > copyright owner. If you have received this email in error, please > immediately advise the sender by return email and delete the message from > your system. > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
