[asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

[Steve Totaro]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Douglas Garstang <dougmig33 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm about to build a complex IVR with Asterisk.
>
> Having done it a few times with the dial plan, I know it's going to be
> pretty ugly. What are my other options? I guess I could do it in
> AGI/FastAGI. What about VxML (about which I know almost nothing...)?
>
> Using Asterisk 1.2
>
> Thanks,
> Doug.
>

FastAGI is a good bet.  You can patch it to jump N+101 so you can have
failover in case the box hosting the AGI is unreachable, it will jump,
instead of the default of just failing and halting.

It also offloads the processing to a different box.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro