I agree with Dan. Asterisk is good but we did not want to base our
entire phone system on an open source project without any corporate
backing or tech support.
There are numerous companies that provide support for Asterisk.
Remember that just b/c sw os Open Source doesn't mean there aren't
commercial support channels for it. (We for instance provide
commercial support for numerous Open Source packages, and there are
companies who do nothing but specialize in particular software
packages.) For instance at the last LinuxWorld here in NYC it seemed
like you couldn't walk w/o tripping over some company providing some
sort of product and/or support for Asterisk.
The support is mainly users and group lists. Asterisk running on a
mac was even farther from my mind. Now after saying that. Setting up
asterisk and running it gave me a better understanding of Voip
terminology and how it works.
It's not just limited to VoIP.
We found things we liked and things we didn't.
Try Asterisk, it's fun. The big vendors and some small ones are
always willing to come out to your location and give you a demo.
Nothing better than to see a cisco engineer look at a cisco phone
working without cisco Call Manager :)
Actually they work quite fine w/o them them in general.
We settled instead for VoIP with a network of MultiLink VoIP 'modems'
that augment our existing PBX systems.
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-dhan
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