[Eug-lug] Anybody put asterisk into production?

[Garl Grigsby]

larry price wrote:
>> [1] This system is one of the most obnoxious, poorly documented, pieces
>> of **** I have ever had the displeasure to work with. Simple things take
>> hours to figure out, if you can decipher the gibberish they call docs at
>> all. Their 'interface' software is so arcane that and painful to use
>> that I would almost rather staple my lower lip to my forehead than try
>> to use it. Arggg. I hates it. It burns me....
>
> Another satisfied Siemens-Rolm customer...?
Nope. NEC. Total POS.
>
> I played Igor[1] for a VOIP rollout  last year, using Cisco handsets,
> hooked up to a commercial provider (Covad); sound quality was
> acceptable. I've played with TrixBox [2] and with FreeSwitch [3], but
> haven't used either in production.
>
> 1. as in "Igor fetch me a crossover cable","Igor configure these
> handsets for this netblock"
:) Igor. I like that.
> 2. http://www.trixbox.org/ Easy install ( was Asterisk at home )
That is one of the setup's I'm going to play with. I've just ordered a 
single port FXO card from Ebay that I'll be using to play with. I just 
need to find a couple of good hardware SIP phones that won't cost me 
$200 each.
> 3. http://www.freeswitch.org/ full on softswitch, complex but very 
> flexible
Hadn't seen this one before. Great. Now I've got more reading to do....

Garl