Setting up a PBX for Israel<->US communication

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:44:14PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> I have yet to take up Arik Baratz on his generous offer to help me
> setup my own Asterisk server, but in the meantime I learne a couple of
> things:
> 
> 1. Amazon EC2 might contain surprises in the bill. I'm saying this
> VERY cautiously based on one test server we had for a few days with
> lots of disk space (it runs a web application with a 300Gb disk for
> MySQL database) but it should be checked carefully before jumping on
> it.
> 
> 2. The following is a thread on the other mailing list I follow where
> people give some more useful advise about setting up VoIP networks
> http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2009/02/msg00051.html.
> 
> In particular I'm curios to hear what others have to say about
> FreeSwitch (freeswitch.org) compared to Asterisk, as I keep hearing
> that Asterisk configuration is somewhat of a black art (if it turns to
> be as much "black art" as Perl programming then I might even enjoy it
> :) and the guy here
> http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2009/02/msg00059.html who
> raised the FreeSWITCH option says that nothing less than a gun pointed
> at his head will make him go back to Asterisk.

FreeSwitch developers have many bad words regarding Asterisk. So many of
them are unfounded (or no longer founded) that I generally distrust
them.

At the moment Asterisk is more mature and far more deployed.

(and does support Lua, BTW. Only nobody really bothers using it. As the
fact that most people didn't touch the pbx_perl and pbx_js that the
author of FS wrote as Asterisk modules before starting FS)

Anyway, FS's license is MPL. Which for me is a concern to avoid using
it: yet another GPL-incompatible software does not help anybody.

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