[asterisk-users] Is Asterisk ready for Prime-Time?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:09:36AM -0400, Al Baker wrote:
> Not sure if this is the best place to ask this or not...but since it was 
> mentioned..
> Is "SwitchVox" a alternative to  *  ?
> Were they a competitor to *, and DIGIUM bought them and so DIGIUM
> has 2 Totally Different PBX software packages ?????

Think of Asterisk not as a PBX but as a PBX toolkit. Various people in
this list build their PBX from this toolkit directly. Some of them do it
for their home or company. Others resell it.

Yet others use Asterisk as a part of a larger PBX. SwitchVox is one
example of such a PBX. FreePBX is another. Druid is a third one. 
Digium also have hteir AsteriskNOW which is a very light-weight one.

All of those packages are not an alternative to Asterisk (the PBX
toolkit). They are an alternative to a home-grown PBX built on top of
Asterisk. There are various pros and cons to both sides and various good
and bad examples for both sides.

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