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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. Asterisk is also a gateway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    SIPx appears to be a PBX only, with no way to attach real phones. Asterisk's primary appeal is that it integrates POTS and SIP. Who uses SIP and SIP alone?

    1. 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!
  2. There's at least one other open source PBX by SizL · · Score: 5, Informative

    And it's PBX4Linux. http://isdn.jolly.de/

  3. Whoah, Nelly! by FirienFirien · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the number of acronyms per slashdot article might be an indication of its geek-tech depth...

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  4. Jargon Buster by Jack+Taylor · · Score: 5, Informative

    There seems to be some confusion over the acronyms on this topic, so I thought I would clarify some of them:

    PBX: Private Branch Exchange - this is basically a computerised telephone switchboard, allowing even fairly small organisations to manage their own telephone networks at low cost.

    SIP: Session Initiated Protocol - this is the protocol that is standard on most voice-over-IP devices.

    COWBOYNEAL: Circulation Of Worthless Broadcasts Over Your Nearest External Authentication Location - this is a special extension to the voice-over-IP standard allowing fast delivery of esoteric technological news to compliant devices. It also has the convenient property of always being last on selection fields in the user interface.

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