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Asterisk faces FreeSwitch
Asterisk is well-known, but the open-source IP PBX FreeSwitch is winning favor in some circles, says ZDNet's Dave Greenfield.
FreeSwitch gets kudos for cleaner code and better implementation of some types of features. Expected to be released this week, Version 1.0.1 improves the code stability and adds both automatic speech recognition and text to speech to the code.
Open source developers and enterprise users are finding love with FreeSwitch. SIPfoundry is using FreeSwitch as the basis for a new open source conferencing server. Implementation of call monitoring and busy lamp field (BLF), voice mail, and call parking reportedly are all much better in FreeSwitch. The platform supports writing IVRs in Lua, Javascript, Python, Perl and a built-in XML.
A bigger challenge for all open source projects will be the ability to integrate PBX functionality with business applications through web services.
For more:
- ZDNet's FreeSwitch vs.
Asterisk blog
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Comments
Posted by iTodd | July 24, 2008 - 8:23pm
We are using FreeSwitch on the back end of our free calling service, Plumble.com. You can see a test of it at http://www.plumble.com/G
We sweated out the decision for months. Asterisk has the bigger developer community but FreeSwitch seemed more robust and scalable. Which was a huge concern. In the end, we went with FreeSwitch. There have been a few issues trying to get answers on how to do certain things (that a million people would have known if we had gone with Asterisk). But overall we are VERY pleased with the FreeSwitch.
With the release of the new build, we should be able to finally polish up and complete our beta.
If you've got resourceful developers, don't hesitate to check out FreeSwitch.
Posted by Diego Viola | July 28, 2008 - 4:32pm
FreeSWITCH rocks!
Best telephony platform I ever used, highly recommended.
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