Welcome on board Tom! And sorry for being witty before ;-) -gm
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Christensen Tom<paveraw...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am totally fine without a slick GUI interface. The first 2 years of > asterisk stuff I did was all in on the CLI in <editor of your choice> (I use > vim most of the time, but not for religious reasons...). > Anyway, thanks for the info, I'll be setting up a freeswitch system this > weekend expect to see me on IRC and here.. > Thanks! > -Tom > ________________________________ > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:54:25 -0700 > From: m...@freeswitch.org > To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org > Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Hello, and stuff. > > Tom, > Welcome! Sadly, your experience is not unique... > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Christensen Tom <paveraw...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > As a background, I ran an asterisk consulting company for about 3 years that > I gave up on 2 years ago after repeatedly failing to achieve any sort of > stability on any sort install over about 30 phones, I gave up. > > The consensus I've seen is that the larger the install, the more likely one > is to have inexplicable issues. > > > Maybe that was wrong, I am open to the possibility that I just didn't know > enough and I was building things wrong, but I worked inside the asterisk > code (which I feel is a hopeless mess), I implemented a few small custom > features, anyway... > > Any software that openly admits that a function is "pure nastiness" but > doesn't change it from version 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, or 1.6 has questionable > leadership IMHO. (grep the Asterisk source tree for "nastiness" and you'll > see it.) > > > I'm coming back into the VoIP space now, and I'm wondering what sort of > issues can I expect in trying to pick up and learn freeswitch? From what > I've read on the website, it appears to have a much more sane architecture. > I've used Cisco, Broadsoft, and asterisk in the past. By far the least > stable and worst general call quality was asterisk. I constantly contended > with strange call quality issues in asterisk, lots of echo (even with > hardware echo cancellation cards), lots of jitter, lots of call break up > (even on small systems with 10-20 users, using QoS on the network, and in > general doing everything I could to prioritize voice over anything else). > > Again, your experience isn't unique... > > When I used Cisco call manager and broadsoft, the voice quality issues were > basically non-existant, as long as the network was running QoS echo, > stutter, calls breaking up, just didn't happen. So, I guess my question is, > does freeswitch show a marked improvement over asterisk in this department? > As long as you configure QoS and have hardware echo cancellation does it > actually work reliably? > > We receive lots of reports that FreeSWITCH is a vast improvement over not > only Asterisk but proprietary solutions as well. The FS architecture is, as > you mentioned, not insane. It is well thought out and therefore highly > flexible, extensible, and scalable. I'm not aware of anything - OSS or > proprietary - that can match FS in these three areas. > > Thanks for any additional information about freeswitch you can provide as > well. I am a software developer primarily by trade, but I do lots of > consulting type work in the SME space and I've had a couple projects thrown > to me that require some integration with a phone system, and I just can't in > good conscience recommend asterisk anymore. > > Are you comfortable with the lack of a super slick GUI? :) Some GUIs are in > development but the power users are quite happy with doing the emacs (or > vim) shuffle with the XML config files. Furthermore, the ways that FS allows > you to connect and control are fantastic: mod_xml_curl for dynamic > configurations, event-socket for external control (think of it like AMI not > sucking and being turbo-charged), mod_xml_rpc for RPC goodness... Anyway, > the list is impressive. > > I can honestly say that every week we get new people looking at FreeSWITCH > and saying, "Wow, this is incredible." I can definitely, in good conscience, > recommend you investigate FS more deeply. I'm confident you'll be happy with > the return on your investment. > > Hope it all works out for you! Join us in #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net if > you want to chat in real-time. > -Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > > _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org