Phones / VOIP

[snoerre]

For opensource Home - SIPfoundry looks interesting. There´s also a commercial release. Unfortunately I cannot find any prices. Anyone?

[DarrenG]

The FreeFBX solution is based on the Mysql version of asterisk and in terms of customization is just as flexible IMHO worth a play if you want.

There is also Trixbox CE

Oooo sounds interesting, might have to take a look at this

[Geoff]

Don't forget Trixbox/FreePBX will run quite happily in VMware (don't use virtualisation for a production system though!) so you can easily set up a few soft phones and have a mess around.

[CyberNerd]

(don't use virtualisation for a production system though!)

What is the issue with it?

[DarrenG]

Don't forget Trixbox/FreePBX will run quite happily in VMware (don't use virtualisation for a production system though!) so you can easily set up a few soft phones and have a mess around.

Why not ?

[Geoff]

From a VOIP point of view as soon as you go above 20-30 extensions and/or start doing queue handling you'll exceed the I/O and memory utilisation VMware can cope with and you'll start dropping calls. On a more practical note, there's no way you can use a hardware telephony card with VMware, it's simply not supported, so you can't use a ISDN or FXS/FXO card.