Hi Christensen, Welcome, you made a good choice on FreeSWITCH, and FS is much better at those things than Asterisk.
Good luck, we are here to help you and tell us your experience later :). Diego On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:14 PM, 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. > > 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... > > 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). > > 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? > > 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. > > > -Tom > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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