[ale] VOIP recommendations?

[Jim Lynch]

On 08/23/2011 04:15 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 16:09 -0400, Brian W. Neu wrote:
>> I'm looking to recommend to several of my clients that they ditch the
>> stone ages and leap into the world of today with some VOIP services.
>> They are going to want desktop phones though -- possibly travel-friendly
>> phones.
>>
>> Can I get recommendations from my open source amigos for hardware and
>> service providers?  I'm not a stickler for some kind of Linux solution,
>> just a solid one.
> Please don't try to run 8 calls over residential class DSL to save a
> dime.
>
> If you eliminate POTs you're going to have to beef up your data circuit.
> It also needs to be reliable.
>
> Look into running Asterisk and possible soft phones on their desktop.
> If they travel you can put soft phones on Android and iOS.
>
> Chris
I'd like to put a plug in here for FreeSwitch.  It's an open source 
alternative to Asterisk.  It's newer, cleaner and under active 
development.  I tossed Asterisk and installed FS for my home 
switchboard.  I'm a lot less frustrated now.  There's a mailing list and 
an irc channel for support.  The folks on the irc channel are 
knowledgeable friendly and supportive.  It has pretty much all of the 
features of Asterisk but is easier to configure and use.  It's truly 
open source.

Jim.