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mi+thun at aldan.algeb...
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 Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH on FreeBSD |
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Hello!
I'm researching a phone system for an organization with 8-12 members.
The place has an Internet connection via Verizon FIOS. My first choice
of the operating system is FreeBSD (preferably -- on amd64 platform).
FreeBSD's port (net/freeswitch) seems nice and currently installs
version 1.0.4.3. Although fairly proficient with Unix and FreeBSD in
particular, I'm very new to the field of computer telephony, so my
questions are most likely to be rather naive. I apologize...
* What hardware is known to work well on FreeBSD?
* What else -- other than a computer with a phone card -- will I need?
* Do end-user phones have to be regular analog phones (all
plugged-in to the computer), or IP-phones, such as made by Avaya
(connecting via an Ethernet switch)?
* How is the computer connecting to the world? Do I plug-in the
incoming analog phone line(s) somewhere, or is it going to go
through the Internet?
* If the connection to the world is over the Internet, don't we need
an account with someone else, or is Verizon known to work with
FreeSWITCH-based PBX-systems directly?
* Should I not simply buy a used Avaya-system like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110450339950&_trksid=p2759.l1259
What will I gain and what will I lose (other than personal
satisfaction, of course) by going that route instead of building
my own box?
Thanks a lot! Yours,
-mi
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mi+thun at aldan.algeb...
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:12 am Post subject: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH on FreeBSD |
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Richard E Neese ΞΑΠΙΣΑΧ(ΜΑ):
| Quote: | | Quote: | * What hardware is known to work well on FreeBSD?
* What else -- other than a computer with a phone card -- will I
need?
* Do end-user phones have to be regular analog phones (all
plugged-in to the computer), or IP-phones, such as made by Avaya
(connecting via an Ethernet switch)?
* How is the computer connecting to the world? Do I plug-in the
incoming analog phone line(s) somewhere, or is it going to go
through the Internet?
* If the connection to the world is over the Internet, don't we
need
an account with someone else, or is Verizon known to work with
FreeSWITCH-based PBX-systems directly?
* Should I not simply buy a used Avaya-system like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110450339950&_trksid=p2759.l1259
What will I gain and what will I lose (other than personal
satisfaction, of course) by going that route instead of building
my own box?
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Thank you very much, Richard, for you answering some of my questions. A
few remain, however:
| Quote: | using freeswitch on bsd is free. nd all you kneed is phones like
polycom soundpoint or aastra or snome or cisco . Sip phones.
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So, the phones connect -- via CAT6 cables -- to my network switch, and
talk to my FreeBSD server running FreeSWITCH. Ok. But how does the
server connect to the world? Somewhere between me talking into a Polycom
handset in New Jersey and my friend in hearing me in Ukraine, the audio
has to hit the telephone network... Where does this happen?
Do I plug-in a regular phone line into the same server? If so, what
hardware do I need inside it?
Or do I use a VOIP-provider -- connecting my server to them via the
Internet? And if so, which providers should I consider -- would Verizon
themselves qualify?
I ask, because the phone-service provided with Verizon's FIOS is already
a VOIP of some kind -- there is no copper line any more, it is all done
through optic cable... Verizon-provided device connects to that fiber on
one end, and gives you a phone-line on the other...
So it would be rather silly for my SIP-phones to convert the analog
speech into packets, then for the FreeSWITCH server to convert them back
into analog audio, and then for Verizon's equipment right in my house to
digitize back...
Thanks! Yours,
-mi
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