Setting up a PBX for Israel<->US communication

[Ohad Levy]

I've been using Asterisk for the last 4 years.

Never had a reason to move to Freeswitch. Asterisk rarely crash, (we have
more than 15M minutes)

If you like perl so much (or any language for that matter) you could
configure Asterisk dialplan using a script instead of asterisk regular
dialplans... if you are used to unix style configuration files, asterisk is
not that hard, and you could always use one of the web interfaces.

I personally, really likes the ruby on rails intergartaion to asterisk,
makes it a lot of fun.

just my 2cents.

Ohad

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/2/10 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>:
> > FreeSwitch developers have many bad words regarding Asterisk. So many of
> > them are unfounded (or no longer founded) that I generally distrust
> > them.
>
> This guy claims to be within the first tier of Asterisk commiters and
> to know its code through and through.
>
> Has Asterisk managed to get rid of the deadlocks and segfaults (and
> apparently a prehistoric architecture) he mentions in his "FreeSwitch
> vs Asterisk" at http://freeswitch.org/node/117?
>
> >
> > At the moment Asterisk is more mature and far more deployed.
>
> So it appears. But also I keep hearing horror stories about
> configuring it, and the guy who mentioned FreeSWITCH in the link from
> my previous message had experience with Asterisk and prefers
> FreeSWITCH.
>
> What merit points are there for Asterisk beyond "everyone uses it" (a
> billion flies CAN be wrong, you know)? Can it do something that
> FreeSwitch can't (the FreeSwitch guy says something about Asterisk
> being a PBX while FreeSwitch is a software switch, I don't know what's
> the difference and for now I plan to use it only for myself and maybe
> to connect a couple of trans-pacific offices)?
>
> >
> > (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.
>
> In all the arguments above I didn't see one which actually refers to
> the merits of FreeSwitch.
>
> I'm not trying to annoy, just understand what am I missing about it,
> if at all. So far your points against it are not conclusive, IMHO.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Amos
>
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