On 3/13/07, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Apparently Kelly Martin has recommended Asterisk in private discussions that never reached anyone with the ability to make it happen.
I'm told that Greg Maxwell has set up an experimental server of some kind, unspecified on the page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/voip
Greg or others, can you comment on server and client issues and make recommendations on what might be a good direction to move forward with this, as far as availability of clients, ease of use, quality etc?
Greg's server is Asterisk. From what Greg told me last night (he's in California on business and I don't know when he'll see this), it is about as hard to set up as Apache. I strongly suspect you'd have little trouble finding someone to help with it if nobody in the current tech team has the time to learn the system. I can't spare the time right now (I'm already backlogged at work, and we're moving house just now), but I can probably give it more focus in a week or so when things are bit less insane around here.
I reviewed Asterisk back in late 2005 when evaluating VoIP systems for my employer. We ended up selecting a different system, but it looked to me like a decently good product.
Kelly