Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

[Simon]

Hey Stroller,
  nice to see a friend in a similar situation as mine!  I'm sure that
having the hardware already, you probably made a lot of tests in the
past...  can you share some of your experience?  and also, i wonder,
why did you let the project down? was it because of lack of motivation
(ie other priorities) or because the difficulties you found?

Thanks!

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Stroller
<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:30, Simon wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the
>> past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than
>> my girlfriend ever dreamed of!  It seems extremely difficult to setup,
>> specially for a newbie.
>
> In addition to Simon's questions, can I ask if anyone has used Freeswitch?
> http://www.freeswitch.org/
>
> I read about it a while ago, and found this article, which I think was on
> the site's main page at the time:
> http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117
> From that, you might interpret that the lead developer either really knows
> his stuff and is really innovative, or you might wonder if he fell out with
> the Asterisk devs because he didn't get his own way. ;)
>
> I've actually got a really expensive (or it was when I bought it!) Cisco
> phone and an X100 POTS card sitting here, as I've been meaning to get round
> to implementing Asterisk for about 4 years now! Perhaps this thread will
> give me a little bit of a kick up the arse.
>
> At least it's given me enough motivation to do some homework - the cheap
> X100 card (to take calls from a regular phoneline & feed them into the PBX)
> does indeed seem to be supported by Freeswitch :)
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>



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