On 2009-09-14, at 10:49, Butch Whitby wrote: > I've read over the docs and am somewhat confused as to it's > purpose. Can freeswitch be used as a drop in replacement for > asterisk? I'm asking as today marks the third time this week > asterisk has quit working, (along with apache, and various other > things). That and I am trying to move all of our systems onto > Solaris.
Freeswitch is a SIP PBX. It can do IAX, but with a module with limited support. Here we use freeswitch as out central PBX, this way: phone->FS->cisco SIP gateway->pstn Freeswitch provides call routing, voicemail, call recording, conference... The main "problem" with freeswitch it's the configuration. It's no complicated, but it can be very confusing at first. It uses XML and a different approach than asterisk. You have a learning curve, you should not think you will master freeswitch because you know asterisk. But freeswitch has been very robust, easier to debug and easier to deploy (read compile/install) than asterisk. And the XML configuration has proven to be much more powerful than it's plain text counterpart, but hell it's confusing at first. I haven't tried it on sparc, but it should be no problem as I compiled it with sun studio on x86. Best regards Kuon -- Nicolas Goy Crazy Programmer and Optimization Bear http://goyman.com http://kuon.goyman.com
