Bill Andersen wrote: > a) IF... I expect a phone system to just work. Once it is > configured, a phone system should just work with > very little attention. My previous system was a > Comdial with external voice mail on a DOS based PC. > I LITERALLY WENT OVER 4 YEARS WITHOUT HAVING TO REMOVE > POWER TO THE COMDIAL CONTROL OR RE-BOOT THE VOICE MAIL PC. I don't think you'll ever find the reliability of those old solid state systems. They have very few features and little to go wrong. I don't judge my asterisk installations against those systems. I judge asterisk against comparable systems, like a cisco voip systems or a Nortel BCM.
While I can't say asterisk is more stable than they are, I can say the support is much better. With closed systems I never quite know whats going on and get told to reboot regularly to fix problems (the days of a BCM taking 20 minutes to reboot during business hours of a call center...). Or sometimes told the latest version will fix my problems, assuming I pay for it. With asterisk I can tackle the issues myself and get a continually improving product with no extra charges. The power of open source. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
