Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
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.
I agree. "Down and dirty" is the best way to get a workable dial plan.
One other thing I got caught out with earlier this year is that
CVS-HEAD has some dial plan features that are not in Stable,
particularly the ones that do auto-priority. This feature makes modding
a dial plan simple, but without it you have to re-number all your
extension priorities = PITA.
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.
I tried to get my mind around STUN, because it is non-proprietory, but I
gave up and went with IAX2 instead. I believe that the author is trying
to get IAX2 accepted as a standard anyway.
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
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