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New Open Source VoIP PBX

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tin-can-and-string-compatible dept.

dsginter writes "It looks like Asterisk isn't the only open source PBX game in town anymore. sipX, as the name implies, is a SIP-only PBX project released under the LGPL. A noteworthy feature is the inclusion of an out-of-the-box web-based management console. Read more about the release over at Voxilla."

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  1. Re:Asterisk is also a gateway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This looks kind of like SER http://www.iptel.org/ser/

    For sip only there are a few options available.

    Anyway I41 like the swiss army knife approach of asterisk, would love to see encrypted IAX2 though.

  2. Re:Asterisk is also a gateway by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    gobs of people and businesses.

    3com's voip phone systesm are this way. and you can get pots to SIP adapters for much cheaper than the specalized cards that asterisk uses.

    asterisk is a cool project, but it's huge and designed to interface to lots of legacy hardware.

    personally sip alone works great for me. I can have incoming voip calls on one of my 2 voip lines routed to different phones in the house and do other neat things that are certianly doable with asterisk but this project I was able to be up and running in 3 hours of tinkering. I NEVER was able to get asterisk working the way I wanted after 2 weeks of tinkering. Too many configuration options and features that I will not use.

    but then that is why I run thttpd and not apache for my home web servers :-)

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  3. Re:Asterisk is also a gateway by quarkoid · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "asterisk is a cool project, but it's huge and designed to interface to lots of legacy hardware."
    Nope. Asterisk is designed so that if you want to interface with lots of legacy hardware, it's easy to write an application interface to do so. There's a big difference.
    "and you can get pots to SIP adapters for much cheaper than the specalized cards that asterisk uses"
    Or, alternatively, you could just use those cheaper adaptors with Asterisk as we do.

    We have built our business based on Asterisk and have several SIP-only installations as well as SIP and TDM combined installations. We regularly undertake product surveys, but as yet we haven't found any product which can match Asterisk, let alone beat it!
  4. Re:Yate is also a PBX and a gateway by biba2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yate (Yet Another Telephony Engine) is also a gateway and a PBX.
    It supports H323 (much better then asterisk), SIP (with a nice stack that it can be actualy reused), IAX2 (with a forked version of libiax2), and ISDN (PRI and BRI) using zaptel drivers.
    The best part is that is much more flexibile then any other similar project around. Is not like sipX just SIP based, and is not like Asterisk a emulation of PSTN over VoIP. Is a real VoIP server that actualy deal also with PSTN.

  5. Asterisk is like linux, Sipx is like Windows by tburt11 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I recently deployed asterisk in a few locations. It was admitedly tough. I was unfamiliar with the world of telephony, and new to VOIP. I read lots of wiki pages, and read through the extremely detailed configuration files, and with some trial and error, I now have a fully fledged PBX in my home, and my workplace.

    I have never sought out a GUI interface for asterisk.

    If I wanted a GUI interface, I would have looked for a MS based solution. Isn't that obvious?

    From what I have read, and experienced, IAX is a superior protocol to SIP, principally due to it's handling of NAT and firewall issues. It just works, and it works well. I can send an IAX adapter to the far side of the world, and have the user plug it in. Without the need to add rules to their router, I can connect and Voila, they are talking.

    I am very pleased with Asterisk. I have only begun to utilize it's vast capabilitites.

    It appears that SIPX is targeting the user who wants simplicity. Most windows users are attracted to simplicity. Ergo: Asterisk is like linux, manually configured and extremely powerful. Sipx is like windows, give me a dialog box to type in my phone number, and that is all I want.

    DISCLAIMER: I have never used SIPX, but a quick look at the website, and pulling up blank pages for the readme's tells me alot!

  6. Great! Now I have just 1 wish by aminorex · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If only sipX would support IAX2 protocol, we'd have
    a really useful component which would peer with
    Asterisk servers and be operable over stupid NAT
    devices such as the majority of connected systems
    use to connect to the Internet.

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