[Mac-telephony-list] LinuxPPC & * or OpenPBX?

[Bruno Impens via List]

Op 22-dec-06, om 05:43 heeft Amanda Walker via List het volgende  
geschreven:

> On Dec 21, 2006, at 10:35 PM, Thoth via List wrote:
>> Does anyone see an advantage to running asterisk on OS X, aside
>> from maybe a
>> all-in-one secretary's desktop that runs word processing,
>> spreadsheeting/databasing, and answers the phone?  I don't think
>> there would
>> be any more stability to be gained from OS X.  And the graphical
>> overhead is
>> a waste if the box is only a server.  Add in samba sharing, ldap,
>> openexchange, email, and web services, and a linux server can
>> provide a ton
>> of corporate level phunctionality all with no licensing fees.
>
> Sure.  On the other hand, you've also just described Mac OS X
> Server.  For example, I have an XServe G5 racked up at my local
> Equinix data center.  My interest in Asterisk / OpenPBX /
> FreeSwitch / etc. on MacOS X is not because I want to run it on a Mac
> in my office, it's because I want to run it on the XServe sitting
> somewhere on a big fat GigE upstream connection, without having to
> pay for any more rack space or power than I already do.

I am actually doing this already on a Xserve G4. Although I didn't  
intend to do it at first.
We wanted all calls to go to two different sip providers, but they  
require a fixed ip adress and we have 3 locations running asterisk  
over adsl and cable connections that do not have this.
So I threw the last sunrise packages on the xserve and configured  
incoming iax, going out on SIP with some number juggeling to get the  
international codes and leading zeros ok.
We have been using this for 3 weeks now and except for the growing  
number of asterisk processes running on the machine everything works  
without a flaw.
I am still trying to find out why the number of asterisk processes  
grow. But it shows you can already get something useful up and  
running overnight.
This situation doesn't need  a lot of functionality so I will be  
stripping modules out this weekend. Using IAX to go out has made it a  
lot easier to get trough nat and firewalls than before and I have set  
all nat routers to prioritise the iax port so all voice comes first.  
If we had more time and money I would replace the xserve G4 with  
something recent but for now I will probably hold this situation  
intill I can do the same with openPBX without too much trouble.


> Not all of us are interested in "PBX on a Mac mini".  Some of us are
> interested in "PBX as one of many services provided by a Mac OS X
> server box".
>
>
> Amanda Walker
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