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I felt lucky to have Asterisk working for GV and Whistle Phone very first time last weekend after installed and rebuilt Asterisk few times. I still couldn't have Asterisk working properly in VirtualBox.

I'm using Trixbox with the Unistim channel pre-installed and it works great. I'd like to switch to FreePBX and see the updates to your Unistim channel. I just installed FreePBX with Asterisk 11 and I noticed that there is no unistim.conf file. Am I required to install the channel myself, or is it installed and I just.

It took me 5 minutes to install FreeSwitch and another 10 minutes to have soft phone registered (I had to reload after changed pwd of default extension 1000). It seems there are many reasons to use FS instead of *, e.g., (1). FS is much easier to install and configure. FS can run on native Linux, Windows and others, * can't run on native Windows (some small offices do need Windows PCs). Mazilo runs FS on Dockstar.

Iscream said FS is better. CWU uses FS so customers can configure CIDs and many other parameters by themselves. F9 uses * so users had to send tickets to change CIDs and some paramters. Any comments?

I haven't yet learned FreeSWITCH, but I have investigated its dial plan which appears to be XML-based. This, IMHO, is another reason to use FreeSWITCH. I tried to write a syntax highlighter for Asterisk configuration files once and it was a nightmare - so many keywords re-used for different purposes that it was difficult to logically parse things. Speaking as a programmer, this to me is a sign that the project was not properly planned out. I use Asterisk every day and love what I can do with it, but there is room for improvement. When I get the time I would like to learn FreeSWITCH. For the record, users can configure CID etc themselves if the provider is using Asterisk, since Asterisk can store information about peers in a MySQL database.

Said by: b) For business use, it it fair to say that being a PBX is a mundane basic function for Asterisk, while being a PBX is at the high end of capability for FreeSwitch? C) For existing (business) installations, what barriers exist for migrating from Asterisk to FreeSwitch?

I liked user interface of CWU (e.g., CIDs, sub accounts), Iscream has mentioned they have studied FS, is seems FS is variable solution for businesses. Switching from * to FS may not be easy, e.g., the configurations are very different. My question was mostly or new users and businesses. I was thinking of installing FS on a small office PC without additional equipment. Said by: b) For business use, it it fair to say that being a PBX is a mundane basic function for Asterisk, while being a PBX is at the high end of capability for FreeSwitch?

Not sure I understand this: Are you asking if asterisk is better at being a PBX? I have played with both and found that while freeswitch configuration is lot more involved. Yes, you can get the default up and running without too much work. Orca3d Download Crack.

However, I like to turn off all features and activate only those that I need and understand. Partly because of the available documentation, and partly due to different design philosophies, I found this lot easier to do in asterisk. I also found that asterisk was more stable than freeswitch on constrained (embedded) hardware. Disclaimer: I like hand editing text based configuration files cheers, -m. I looked into Freeswitch.

Quite frankly it just seemed too complicated. Many of the features I expected to be native require configuring and compiling. When reading it over, it seemed very complicated to set up and use. I also had trouble finding good documentation on it. It may not really be any more complicated than asterisk.

In reality, it could be much easier. Asterisk has been around for a long time and I have learned (by force) what I need to make it work for me.

There was only one horse in the race, so it was learn it, or move on. I don't want to relearn how to set up a phone system. I am comfortable with asterisk. I know that if it breaks (more like if I break it), I can probably fix it or find the answer quickly. I think that's a lot of it.

We are creatures of habit and tend to stick with what we know. I like the fact that I can pop in a PBXIAF CD and be up and running in an hour with a nice GUI that tells me everything I need to know and probably helps keep me from breaking things. Just like Apple says (but can't do), it just works. I'll make a little donation to Uncle Ward and be satisfied with my working system. I won't blatantly write FS off.

I will eventually probably try it out on a non-production system and see what happens. Said by: b) For business use, it it fair to say that being a PBX is a mundane basic function for Asterisk, while being a PBX is at the high end of capability for FreeSwitch? Not sure I understand this: Are you asking if asterisk is better at being a PBX?

I think that's what I was getting. Remember when C3PO said to R2D2, ' We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.'

Asterisk is more narrowly designed towards that PBX role. FreeSwitch has that function as just one of many. That's not necessarily undesirable, of course. My name is Michael S Collins and I'm part of the FreeSWITCH community. I happened to catch this thread and was interested in reading what everyone had to say.

If you don't mind I would like to throw in a few comments. First off, the FreeSWITCH developers have a mantra that we follow closely: 'Use what works for you.' The simple fact of the matter is that Anthony Minessale (lead dev) created FreeSWITCH because Asterisk did not 'work for him.' You can read more about this at » or in Appendix B of the FreeSWITCH 1.0.6 book from Packt Publishing. (Full disclosure: I am a co-author of that book.) So the bottom line on 'Asterisk vs. FreeSWITCH' is that you should use what works for your situation. For most of us in the FreeSWITCH community, Asterisk simply did not do what we wanted it to do.

As far as the complicatedness of FreeSWITCH configurations, this is an understandable concern. However, I would point out that *all* VoIP server software is complicated. If you use something like PBIAF then you are not removing that complicatedness but merely abstracting it away.

For FreeSWITCH there were many design decisions that affected its complicatedness. It was decided very early on that complexity is a good thing when you are creating a carrier class, multi-protocol softswitching library.

FreeSWITCH is extremely powerful and therefore has a level of complexity that simply must exist to provide that power. Several members of the FreeSWITCH community have started GUI projects. The two that have the most traction right now are blue.box (see 2600hz.org) and FusionPBX (see fusionpbx.com). Just understand that since FreeSWITCH is designed to be the telephony engine inside of larger applications that there's no one single 'GUI to rule them all' as it were.

Like many Asterisk admins, there are numerous FreeSWITCH admins whose GUI is quite simply a text editor. There is, of course, much more to this discussion, but I'll save that for another time. Feel free to stop by #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net and subscribe to our mailing list at lists.freeswitch.org.

Also, check out the new RTMP client that works with FreeSWITCH at conference.freeswitch.org. The FreeSWITCH devs are always adding new stuff to play with. Regards, Michael S Collins » ». I'm just the same as you, nunya, even though I don't need GUI to make it work for me, as I found that Asterisk is simpler to configure than FreeSWITCH as I only have to worry about peer, user, and friend types than just profiles and domains/IP addresses that are specific to a profile, plus sip_ip, rtp_ip, ext_sip_ip, and all that network stuff that should of have been completely unnecessary, as I've realized that FreeSWITCH is just a networked 'switch' with VoIP in mind, but then I would not be jumping into conclusion as I've no idea what I'm talking about. To make myself easier, I just went back into Asterisk because once I read the Asterisk, The Future of Telephony eBook, everything just falls into place so I can just forget about assigning domains and IP addresses that FreeSWITCH requires when it comes to my server acting as a router and that I had trouble figuring out how to make FreeSWITCH be IP address-agnostic when treating remote and internal extensions the same. With Asterisk, it's pretty easy to permit and deny IP addresses. But then perhaps I should not dismiss FreeSWITCH is being hard to setup with multiple network adapters?

*scratching my head*. Said by: I'm wandering why Goggle is missing. If you mean 'Google' it's because we use XMPP and not SIP for Google Voice. To my knowledge, Google has not come out and said that they fully support SIP. Our wiki on Google Voice is here: » -MC Very nice! I have registered CC and Whistle Phone with FS, I'll register GV following the above link. The link says: 'Install FreeSWITCH with mod_dingaling enabled and enable it to load at runtime in Modules.conf.xml.

Note that GNUTLS is required for this and that builds made available do not support it, so in order to make mod_dingaling work (with GV) you'll need to compile Freeswitch on your own. ' I installed FS from weekly build, do I need to re-build FS from source to use GV? Said by: Yes. PBXIAF Incredible PBX install will support GV out of the box. Also this will work with any variant and 1.8.1.1 and higher. » I did build 1.8.4.4 to make GV PSTN calls, I was confused by: (1). It was mentioned somewhere that no stable GUIs for 1.8.x.x.

The following 'Calling using Google Voice or via the Google Talk web client requires the use of Asterisk 1.8.1.1 or greater. The 1.6.x versions of Asterisk only support calls made using the legacy GoogleTalk external client.' Does 'legacy GoogleTalk external client' support PSTN calls using GV? Well, I guess I want to use port 5060 regardless of what network interface card I'm using and that if I have eth0 configured for internal network and eth1 for Internet connection, then I should not have any problems getting FreeSWITCH to work out of the box. But what if I don't need SIP profiles but instead use peer/user/friend instead?

SIP profiles is a totally different beast compared to Asterisk's peer/user/friend type, right? Well, I guess I don't need multiple UAs in a VoIP server, then. I apologize if I exaggerate for saying that 'SIP profiles' being a beast compared to peer/user/friend type. I've became used to the three types, along with contexts, being much more simpler than SIP profiles, which are the strengths in FreeSWITCH. I guess I'll have to give FreeSWITCH a try tonight once I turn off Asterisk. I will post questions in my own thread about how am I going to migrate from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH without SIP profiles getting in my way. Free Download Contra Game For Nokia 2690 more. Well, my network is properly configured.

I'm confused.