[Leaplist] Meeting 3/19/09: Asterisk and VOIP

[Jesse Rhoads]

Tom,

One of the goals in me giving this presentation was to spur interest and 
perhaps encourage some business for myself as well, so if you guys are 
interested in starting a VOIP consultancy consortium here in Orlando, 
I'm all ears.  If you're using switchvox, you're still not as free as 
some of the latest projects.  I will be displaying Elastix at the 
meeting, which is great for beginners has some of the most mature 
asterisk features combined into a simple-to-install CENTOS kickstart 
distro.  Eventually most people begin to roll their own solutions once 
they understand how the pieces go together and how they prefer their 
systems to be configured.

Broadvoice for me is categorized as 'barely works and isn't the best'.   
Based on personal experience, I would rate Vitelity #1, Teliax #2, and 
VoicePulse #3.
There are plenty of other really crappy voip services out there.  I also 
know of people who have hacked various SIP providers to work with 
Asterisk, but they can expect ZERO support as they are violating EULA's, 
etc.  I did not know BH offered SIP trunking, thought you had to use 
their equipment, for good reason.  With a bring-your-own voip solution I 
can just picture the BH techs going, "it's on your end", constantly 
playing blame game, etc.  Its much easier to deal with providers who 
support asterisk officially.

I second thevoipconnection as the best local vendor for gear, and they 
have local pickup or one-day shipping.

Sounds like we will have a lively meeting tomorrow night if nothing else!

Best Regards,
-Jesse


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