[asterisk-users] Asterisk with or without OpenSER

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Alex Balashov wrote:
> mail-lists wrote:
>> Steve,
>>
>> Hijacking this post here - How 'good' is freeswitch currently. I'm 
>> looking for some sort of SIP proxy and have looked into openser and ser.
>> Freeswitch seems to have more functionality than these and it seems a 
>> lot easier to configure. I particularly like the xml config files, etc.
> 
> What do you mean by functionality?  Are you looking for low-level or 
> high-level functionality?

I guess I mean FS has more high level functionality like conference 
rooms and voicemail modules which might allow us to offload some of this 
from *. OpenSER has some of this as well I think. I'm not sure FS lets 
you interact directly with the SIP stack like OpenSER/SER does though (I 
might be completely wrong about this)

> 
> Also, XML is not a reasonable format for config files.  I don't know 
> what sipping-the-property-file-Kool-Aid J2EE droids decided that, but 
> it's made me like UNIX a lot less than I did before now that they're 
> proliferating.

I like XML. I know there's a lot of extra grammar but it keeps things 
straight in my head. I don't have a a great deal of experience with 
various config options but in the past I've much preferred XML based 
phone configs to others.

To each their own I suppose.