I've found a PBX running on OSX called asterisk
(http://www.asterisk.org/). I rode that no PCI cards are yet
available for OSX, even if some companies are working on the port of
*bsd drivers, they recommand external gateway devices.
Anyone is running Asterisk in production? Any recommendation
(tested) of external gateway devices?
First, you don't need device *drivers* for the cards under OS X, the
I/O driver components are already supported by the OS X IOKit
frameworks, but you do need sw that supports them. Many ppl confuse
this with drivers.
We've tested Asterisk on Linux for a distributed VoIP PBX solution
and while it was favorable we still decided to go with a real PBX. It
seemed solid, but considering the appliance nature of PBXen trying to
make a computer into a toaster seems like a lot of effort.
I'd be very hesitant to consider it on OS X. The big issue isn't the
lack of support for telephony cards but the few card slots in Macs in
general. You'd not be able to build a very big PBX unless you got an
expansion PCI/PCI-X chassis. And since you'd probably want the
machine dedicated to this tasks, why wouldn't you just use a
commodity Linux or *BSD box? It would seem to make more sense.
What is your goal though? Are you just looking for PBX sw? Will you
be using VoIP, analog (POTS), or digital stations?
In the end you can probably find a real PBX thats a better ROI and
easier to manage. But if you're a Linux hacker looking to cut teeth
in PBX systems, or plan on doing a lot of VoIP switching, then it may
be a consideration.
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-dhan
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