[asterisk-users] Re: 1.4 on mac OSX 10.4.8

[Dustin Wenz]

Our company's PBX is running Asterisk 1.2 under OS X Server and it's  
been pretty reliable for the 50+ extensions that we have. The system  
has an uptime of 245 days, and no one has ever reported dropped calls  
or any other disturbing behavior. The reason we're using OS X instead  
of Linux is that it's much easier to administer in our environment.  
We have a data center full of xserves, and it would be a pain to have  
one oddball Linux box worry about. At the very least, if you started  
off with a xeon-based xserve and OS X didn't work out, you could  
always just install Linux on it.

The only glaring hole in our implementation is that we haven't found  
a good conferencing solution (no timing source = no meetme). Right  
now, we are paying a fee for a third-party service to handle that for  
us. It would be nice to get an Asterisk module working for this, or  
possibly some sort of standalone SIP conferencing server.

There are some other issues that are not a big problem for us; last I  
checked, realtime was not working for OS X ...and you're out of luck  
if you want to buy Digium hardware since they haven't developed any  
OS X drivers.

	- .Dustin

On Oct 19, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Todd- Asterisk wrote:

> I'm a Certified Apple Sys Admin - lots of experience with Macs and  
> Mac servers.  However, when  setting up an asterisk server, I'm  
> still thinking a Dell box with linux is the best direction - to get  
> the full reliability and full support of this group. Am I  
> mistaken?  Or is using a Mac box just as convenient and reliable?   
> Or is traditional linux 'strongly' recommended for asterisk?  I'm  
> looking at a solely IP based system - no digium cards....
>  thanks
>    Todd
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