Re: Linux based VOIP PBX?

[Ryan Butler]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 14:27, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Hi, sorry for the somewhat off topic question, but I'd love to know if there
> are any production quality Linux based voice over IP products out there.
> We currently use a 3com NBX and it sort of sucks.  It works fine on a
> LAN, it sucks on a WAN.  I'm open to replacing it, but if I did, I'd want
> to go with a Linux based system, for lots of reasons.  If you know of such
> a product, or are working on one, please contact me.  I don't want a free
> product, I want to pay for it and I want it to work.  100% of the time.
> And we need the voicemail/conferencing/menutree stuf that you get with 
> a real product.
> 
> We have $15K into the 3com, so that gives you some idea of our willingness
> to spend money.
> -

Hey Larry,

You might check out the asterisk project, http://www.asteriskpbx.org
Its a fully open source pc based PBX system that supports a wide variety
of PSTN options as well as a open source voip protocol called IAX, as
well as H.323 and SIP support is supposed to be coming (as soon as a
group or a person wants to donate some cash to its implementation).  So
far I have been very impressed with their progress.

Ryan Butler
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