[asterisk-users] Large Asterisk installations (~10, 000 extensions), preferably at universities

[Alex Balashov]

Jason Aarons (US) wrote:

> Just switching from Nortel to something else may not eliminate 
> hardware/software failures, or prevent those without experience from 
> pushing the enter key at the wrong time. 

One also has to keep in mind - Asterisk, like any large open-source 
project, gets a lot more QA, patches and bug fixes than any commercial 
product sold in the intra-industrial channel (i.e. excluding consumer 
mass-market stuff) ever will!  It has a massive installed base, many 
users reporting bugs through an open and easy to understand process, and 
a large community either directly or derivatively involved in 
contributing fixes and testing code.

How much installed base from which to harness that kind of large-scale 
technical feedback does Nortel have?  Avaya?  Cisco?

Asterisk has by far the best QA mechanism.  In terms of potential bugs 
that impact "mission-critical" availability, I would feel better using 
it than any of these black-box, proprietary vendor solutions any day.

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