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- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11There's a smaller community who cares very much about what is going on with Asterisk.
- sporkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Asterisk is an amazing step forward for VoIP networks acceptance in the business world. Closed-source PBX systems cost thousands and thousands of dollars and Asterisk does the same functions and beyond and is FREE.
We use Asterisk to manage several customers VoIP phone networks with great results.
One of our engineers at work went to the developers conference http://www.astricon.net/ this past week. - vampirical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm a VoIP developer/engineer and let me just say eh. I love Asterisk and have been slowly but surely trying sneaking it into my company's infrastructure (rather unsuccessfully as past employees have burned the management with bad Asterisk configuration and management), but I've never been very impressed with Polycom phones. Why couldn't they have partnered with Snom, now they make excellent devices.
Maybe the newer, higher end Polycoms are better than the devices I've had experience with but I'm suspiciously of their "HD voice technology" which is about industry standard for about 50 cents worth of signal processing, equalization, and/or noise cancellation. - cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@merr
The conference phone Polycom makes is just a part of what this means. Polycom has an entire line of IP (otherwise traditional) business telephones.
Great move by Polycom, if they do this right it'll be huge for Asterisk. - merr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Buelldozer: I agree, this is excellent news. In my office we are currently replacing our ancient phone system with Asterisk/VoIP and it now looks like we'll have an easy solution for replacing the Polycom unit in our conference room.
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You're spot on with your points, but the Pointy-Haired types that make the decisions recognize the name "Polycom" and that makes it an easier sell.
- RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Asterisk is to telephony as Linux is to operating systems. The future is open source.
- FuzzyCat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@WelshDwarf
when kiranlightpaw uses the word 'load' kiranlightpaw means the 'load of bollocks kiranlightpaw just spouted' - If your asterisk installs segfault all the time you're doing it wrong.
I'd also suggest looking at freeswitch.org which will start kicking some serious bottom shortly... - DocNo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Asterisk is cool, but when push comes to shove I prefer Shoretel
- dontasker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The one thing that gets to me about this is that they specifically mention "Digium's Asterisk Business" which IS NOT free: Edition" http://voipstore.atacomm.com/Shops/Browse.aspx/27934028032-35766872576.htm
Granted you get full support.
I'm wondering if they partnered up with digium to try and co-promote their products. When i was at Von Digium had a huge booth and had many other companies within theirs. It made Digium look huge and gave recognition to the smaller companies...
also asterisk has also been suported for like 6 months now... - kiranlightpaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Polycoms are great phones, and Asterisk is cool as a small office PBX. Just don't try to put any kind of load on it. Do that, and watch it segfault over and over. :P
- dalkor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is great news. I love Polycoms (Have a IP501 on my desk). I can't wait to see the solution they provide.
-D - kiranlightpaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@WelshDrawf
I'm going ignore FuzzyCat's jab at me, because I'd be willing to bet $10 that he's never done any kind of large Asterisk deployment like I have. I've worked on and seen installs of Asterisk running carrier-level telecom and mass dialer deployments, and any time you get any kind of load on it beyond its ability to handle (which varies based on hardware but is never more than a hundred or so simultaneous calls), Asterisk starts deadlocking and will eventually choke completely and die.
Asterisk's threading model sucks and the fact that it always acts as a B2BUA and can't be set up to just dumb-route, especially when interconnecting with another provider using the same protocol (SIP, for example) means that it can't scale for *****.
Asterisk has come cool features that other systems lack and is just fine for small and medium deployments, but for sheer call-moving ability, use something else like Freeswitch or OpenSER. - dontasker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Your wish has been granted.... on the new 650 units at least
- mkrygeri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We just rolled out a Polycom/Asterisk and things are going very well. Digium Support has been able to isolate any problems we've had (echo and a few call drops).
Any issue we've had was due to misconfiguration on our part.
The features or our setup blow our previous nortel setup out of the water.
What a joy to have one cable... - schwit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Polycoms are good IP phones, but they take too long(typically 3-10 minutes) to boot. I've had some take hours to boot.
- dontasker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the "HD" voice is just their take on a less lossy codec. It's nothing special, just using more bandwidth to send more audio data. I don't know if they use high quality mics and speakers, though.
- WelshDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Care to elaborate on that comment?
I'm interested in asterisk deployments atm and I'd like to know what 'load' is for you, also what happened when you spoke to the devs about it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3nice, I will setup one for my grandma
- ialan2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1was this because of that video about the Bush NSA wiretapping?
- flewid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great - if only polycom would include that new fangled thing called a "backlight". Aastra/sayson has had it right for so many years, and now Cisco with the 7971/7970. Why no backlight polycom! Basement workers deserve good screens too you know! :)
- BrainInAJar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1And even better, asterisk runs on Solaris. (Solaris support is cheaper than redhat)
and Asterisk/Solaris beats the snot out of Asterisk/Linux
lookie:
http://www.thrallingpenguin.com/articles/asterisk-solaris.htm - MondayJBlack, on 10/12/2007, -25/+0I think I join a large community when I say:
"Who the hell cares?"
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