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No major carrier is running FreeSwitch or Asterisk at the core.
by richardwhiuk 2y ago
No major carrier is running FreeSwitch or Asterisk at the core.
- tonetegeatinst 2y agoIs that a Foss or GPL compliant codebase/OS?
- Narkov 2y agoThis very much depends on your definition of major.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoMotorola's low-end 911 phone system, Emergency CallWorks (ECW), is Asterisk with proprietary modules running on Linux under Proxmox. Granted, Motorola is killing the produce, but it's out there. The one I babysit is heavily firewalled but I'd imagine not all of them are.
- shrubble 2y agoThat is not the core, however; the core means the central pieces of a large telecom, the part that handles all the needed data to set up say, 10,000 or more calls per second.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoFor sure. The implicit trust that participants on the PSTN appear to give to each other, imparts a certain amount of undue influence to the constellation of dodgy systems interconnected to it.
- kamma4434 2y agoDepends on your definition of ‘major’
- heraldgeezer 2y agoI am in the same boat as OP and the blog's example is a PBX software for business. I was also confused. Major carriers are like Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2, Telia etc :)
- cootsnuck 2y agoNo, but plenty of businesses that process your call data, whether it's for call recording, transcription, IVRs, speech analytics, CRM integration, call queuing, auto dialing, or SMS/chat features, are liable to be running stuff like FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, or similar somewhere in their stack. Any business with a PBX that wants to do more than just basic call routing and PSTN connectivity is likely using third party tools. And a significant number of those tools are built on FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, or similar.