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This is cool stuff -- also shows how far things have come in the past decade. I'm running my company's phone system on a cloud-hosted Asterisk system -- it's b
by nlh 13y ago
This is cool stuff -- also shows how far things have come in the past decade.
I'm running my company's phone system on a cloud-hosted Asterisk system -- it's basically the same thing that we've been using for years, and works quite well, though we're still tied to physical desk phones.
Curious if anyone has good resources for working with an Asterisk core for an app like this. I recall seeing a Rails framework for Asterisk out there somewhere, but no clue if it's any good. Would love to hear thoughts...
- timrogers 13y agoIndeed - Twilio is awesome purely because it allows you to integrate with the phone networks, which are basically a legacy system, naturally within your applications. I've not really played with Asterisk. How is it to configure, and what has your experience been like? We outsource the PBX side of our system to a SIP provider called Voipfone (http://voipfone.co.uk http://voipfone.co.uk) but it would be appealing if we could do this in-house and have even more flexibility.
- jaytaylor 13y agoAsterisk is very cool and relatively easy to get started with. It's successor, FreeSwitch [1], is also a beautiful piece of software! [1] http://www.freeswitch.org/ http://www.freeswitch.org/
- nlh 13y agoFreeSwitch isn't really a "successor" to Asterisk -- Asterisk is still very much in active development (as is FreeSwitch - I think). More like a competing (in a good way) project. See: http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117 http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117
- jaytaylor 13y agoThank you for clarifying.
- j_s 13y agoTangentially related (IronRuby on Microsoft's DLR for dialplan processing), SIPSorcery is a relatively unknown combination project/service for developers looking for a high-level language interface for orchestrating SIP solutions: http://sipsorcery.codeplex.com/ http://sipsorcery.codeplex.com/