AsteriskNOW to support FreePBX!

good job for the fpbx gang!!

FreePBX is leading the enduser innovation. Philipe et al deserve the recognition. Cheers!

Awesome.

HOWEVER the article got a couple of things wrong. It said people said Asterisk wasn't scalable. Asterisk IS scalable, but it is not EASILY scalable. It requires that you dump a lot of money on a consultant (digium) to piece together an OpenSER/Asterisk/(insert favorite SQL server here) setup and pay someone to write an administration interface for it (no, freepbx wasn't written with large, multi-server installations in mind). That is all well and good if you choose to do this, but there are better solutions out there.

Also, the bit about Nortel phones not working with sipXecs is misleading. You can make the Nortel phones work with Asterisk, but after seeing this thread you may change your mind and buy something else. Also, sipXecs DOES support LG-Nortel phones.

It will be interesting to see the competition between the sipX and asterisk camps in the coming months. sipX is going to release their next version (4.0) soon that will fulfill many requirements that asterisk users need. Interesting times are ahead.

How little traction this thread is getting... Six months ago it would have been several pages long by now.

Congrats to the FreePBX team.

Maybe people don't realize what this means: it means you aren't limited to the current crop of ISO installers, and this one looks promising, from both a technical standpoint and a political one (as of right now they're planning both "pure" and "plus" versions. Pure having no non-free components.)

This is good news to those of us who aren't impressed with the current FOSS telephony offerings.

What I don't like in FreePBX
1. For extension it is no choice what to do on busy/no answer/unavailable. It's only voice mail. But I don't want voice mail, I want my own behaviour in such cases. I can do this only via Follow Me. For hundred extensions how many time it will require to configure?
2. Some version before was possibility to enter custom destination string ("context,extension,priority") in ring group, ivr and so on. NOW I need create custom destination with this string at the OTHER PLACE and then choose this destination from list where I need.
If I need to change this string I can't do it easy as before. First I need remove this custom destination from everywhere, after that I'll get ability to change the string and then I need to return back this destination in all places. Is it convenient?
3. FreePBX generates FOP configuration correctly if there are not more than 39 extensions.
4. Backup and restore works as backup and restore at the same server. I wasn't successful to restore config on the another server (on both servers freepbx was updated to latest version).
It would be nice to have separate export/import for each logical unit (trunks, routes, extensions etc.)

Simple task - Secretary phone and incoming queue. Try to configure that secretary phone will ring 10 seconds alone and than 2 additional phones will ring together with secretary one.
You can say use ring group. First of all you can't create ring group "1+2". Okay let it be "1+1+1". If you add this ring group number as a queue agent it will ring only first phone in the list.

So I use mixed way - FreePBX for Ring Groups, IVR, Queues, Conferences, Time Conditions, but I prefer configure call flow between extensions via conf file editing.

"I think this just makes packages like trixbox have to pull their pants up..." Agreed. And it'll give our friends at Digium a good taste of how all of their enhancements work in the real world.

you should put your needs and desires on the freepbx trac where freepbx development will look them over, posting them here will do very little to get them fixed

First of all: congratulations!
Second; borispr: about 50% of what you want is in the new 2.5. Give it a try - you'll like it. And congrats on your award - its well deserved.

Uncle : if only trixbox looked that good...