[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Port to Windows

[BJ Weschke]

On 1/18/06, Chad Brown <chad.brown at identitymine.com> wrote:
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> Does anyone know if an effort is being made to port Asterisk to Windows? I'm
> not talking about Cygwin but a native port.
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> I know some folks in Seattle/Redmond Washington area that have some funding
> for IPPBX development on Microsoft SBS servers. Their original investment
> was in a well known and successful Windows based IPPBX. However the
> mothership of that company is difficult to share IP with. Long story
> short…In an effort to get a jump on development they were throwing around
> the idea of assembling a team to port Asterisk (Or some other open-source)
> to Windows. They've asked me to do some research on the topic and assemble
> the team once given the go-ahead. There is a major opportunity in the small
> business arena to piggy-back an IPPBX off of the millions of SBS
> implementations.
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> I'm still in the research stage but wanted to know if the funding exists
> would this be a valid concept. That said, may I ask your opinion?
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 Asterisk and any other HMP modeled IPPBX isn't going to play well
with other applications running on the same box on which it's running
on. When you say piggy-back I'd hope you mean by adding an additional
server? Otherwise, you're really bound to have trouble at some point
because with most applications when they don't get the CPU cycles
they're looking for they're just "slow". With an IPPBX in an HMP
environment, you're going to drop calls and have horrible sound
quality and that probably isn't going to be tolerable.


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