blogs.zdnet.com — When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn?t purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader, Asterisk. No, Snipes chose to become the first enterprise to deploy the new open source IP PBX, FreeSwitch.
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ctrixJul 22, 2008
Great!
hmmhesaysJul 22, 2008
I agree many of us have had great success deploying freeswitch where asterisk just won't cut it.
gservatJul 22, 2008
Like someone said in one of the comments for that story, what really sets FS apart (aside from the software itself) is the community behind it. The devs monitor the mailing lists and help out the community. Just recently somebody asked if they could use YAML instead of XML for the config files. Just a few hours later, Anthony had mod_yaml ready for testing. Of course, we can't expect them to implement all our crazy ideas as features but it just goes to show the motivation behind the devs to continously improve the product.Nice work FS team. Keep it up!
Closed AccountJul 22, 2008
I tried to use Asterisk as my office PBX, but it has many bugs... sound quality was terrible, I experienced DTMF issues, audio corruption issues, a few deadlocks, etc.I reported some of those problems here:<a class="user" href="http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12628">http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12628</a><a class="user" href="http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12653&nbn=18">http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12653&nbn=18</a><a class="user" href="http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12810">http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12810</a>Now I'm switching to FreeSWITCH and the learning curve is not bad, the community is very nice and supportive, and this is what people is already saying in the early test of my FreeSWITCH installation:"Hemant: the audio quality is really good""Hemant: no noise heard""Hemant: the sound quality is crystal clear""Hemant: i think this is better than asterisk""Hemant: yep, and it even connects very fast"And this is on a XEN virtual machine (Amazon EC2). Where Asterisk completely refused to work, due to the Zaptel (ztdummy) requirement for MeetMe (conference module). FreeSWITCH just works, and it does soft-based conference just fine.I wrote a more detailed explanation of my Asterisk experience in the real life, and how FreeSWITCH is improving everything in our lives, read here: <a class="user" href="http://pastie.org/pastes/231693">http://pastie.org/pastes/231693</a>Thanks Anthony (anthm) and the FreeSWITCH community for the masterpiece that FreeSWITCH is, it's the best telephony platform I ever used.
anthmJul 22, 2008
ok, Sangoma is announcing today OpenZAP and ss7Boost interop so ask and you shall receive.
rtellesJul 29, 2008
FreeSWITCH is going to be the best VoIP open source plataform!
aenoneJan 14, 2009
Great! Buy VoIP Hardware -> <a class="user" href="http://www.voiptoshop.com">http://www.voiptoshop.com</a>
cybrsrfrJan 31, 2010
FreeSWITCH now has a couple options for open source graphical interfaces. One of the first ones started out as the FreeSWITCH package on pfSense. It has since become multi-platform and been renamed to FusionPBX. Development has continued and the project has had its 1.0 release. Learn more about it here: <a class="user" href="http://www.fusionpbx.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.fusionpbx.com</a>