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[paveraware at hotmail.com]

As a background, I ran an asterisk consulting company for about 3 years that I gave up on 2 years ago after repeatedly failing to achieve any sort of stability on any sort install over about 30 phones, I gave up.

Maybe that was wrong, I am open to the possibility that I just didn't know enough and I was building things wrong, but I worked inside the asterisk code (which I feel is a hopeless mess), I implemented a few small custom features, anyway...

I'm coming back into the VoIP space now, and I'm wondering what sort of issues can I expect in trying to pick up and learn freeswitch? From what I've read on the website, it appears to have a much more sane architecture. I've used Cisco, Broadsoft, and asterisk in the past. By far the least stable and worst general call quality was asterisk. I constantly contended with strange call quality issues in asterisk, lots of echo (even with hardware echo cancellation cards), lots of jitter, lots of call break up (even on small systems with 10-20 users, using QoS on the network, and in general doing everything I could to prioritize voice over anything else).

When I used Cisco call manager and broadsoft, the voice quality issues were basically non-existant, as long as the network was running QoS echo, stutter, calls breaking up, just didn't happen. So, I guess my question is, does freeswitch show a marked improvement over asterisk in this department? As long as you configure QoS and have hardware echo cancellation does it actually work reliably?

Thanks for any additional information about freeswitch you can provide as well. I am a software developer primarily by trade, but I do lots of consulting type work in the SME space and I've had a couple projects thrown to me that require some integration with a phone system, and I just can't in good conscience recommend asterisk anymore.


-Tom

[gmaruzz at celliax.org]

Hi Tom,

best is to try it for yourself, you cannot expect from the FS mailing
list an answer like: "you know, fs is nor a marked improvement on
anything, we just like to spend time together"

-gm


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Christensen Tom<paveraware@hotmail.com> wrote:

[msc at freeswitch.org]

Tom,
Welcome! Sadly, your experience is not unique...

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Christensen Tom <paveraware@hotmail.com (paveraware@hotmail.com)> wrote:

[msc at freeswitch.org]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz@celliax.org (gmaruzz@celliax.org)> wrote:

[gmaruzz at celliax.org]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Michael Collins<msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:

[anthony.minessale at g...]

http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117

That's essentially the story of why I wrote FS.


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org (msc@freeswitch.org)> wrote:

[paveraware at hotmail.com]

I am totally fine without a slick GUI interface. The first 2 years of asterisk stuff I did was all in on the CLI in <editor of your choice> (I use vim most of the time, but not for religious reasons...).

Anyway, thanks for the info, I'll be setting up a freeswitch system this weekend expect to see me on IRC and here..


Thanks!


-Tom

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:54:25 -0700
From: msc@freeswitch.org
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Hello, and stuff.

Tom,
Welcome! Sadly, your experience is not unique...

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Christensen Tom <paveraware@hotmail.com (paveraware@hotmail.com)> wrote:

[gmaruzz at celliax.org]

Welcome on board Tom! And sorry for being witty before
-gm


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Christensen Tom<paveraware@hotmail.com> wrote:

[diego.viola at gmail.com]

Hi Christensen,

Welcome, you made a good choice on FreeSWITCH, and FS is much better at those things than Asterisk.

Good luck, we are here to help you and tell us your experience later .

Diego

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Christensen Tom <paveraware@hotmail.com (paveraware@hotmail.com)> wrote:

[oseslija at gmail.com]

I currently use FS for a managed PBX services for many companies. It's so configurable and extensible, I don't think I would change it for anything. I have Cisco CME and SCCP phones in my office all interconnected to FS doing logic and thinking. I also have Asterisks as PSTN PRI gateways. FS does all the job for me in the world, the other two are just used as protocol gateways. I wouldn't change FS for anything else now, after a year and the half of playing with it. I fully recommend it.

Regards,
Ognjen
 
P.S: To be fair, the echo on the hw ec cards is not really Asterisk's fault.



On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Christensen Tom <paveraware@hotmail.com (paveraware@hotmail.com)> wrote:

[diego.viola at gmail.com]

You guys should put your experiences here .

http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Testimonials

Diego

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Ognjen Seslija <oseslija@gmail.com (oseslija@gmail.com)> wrote:

[tayeb.meftah at gmail.com]

hello,
freeswitch is Awesome and perfect!
if you know XML, freeswitch use XML for there configuration file, no same to asterisk that trying to create a configuration language!
this unic featur let you integrate freeswitch with any Application that support and Parce XML including Web 2.0
freeswitch also support protocol transcoding, including SIP, H.323, Iax2, Skype and GTalk!
Real Time Feature: freeswitch support XML_Curl that let you configure freeswitch remotly from a web server that fetch data from a DB and return it to freeswitch in XML format
XMLRPC let you execute remote api command using your web browser or your XMLRPC application
about Event Socket, this let you build any type of application that talk to freeswitch or freeswitch talk to it in inbound and outbound mode
good luk!
Christensen Tom wrote: