[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6 ???

[Gordon Henderson]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Alejandro Facultad wrote:

> Dear all, I know there are two actual versions of Asterisk: 1.4 and 1.6.

There is also 1.2. It may not be supported but there are 1000's of people 
out there (myself included) who are still using it.

> My scenario is: SIP server with 100-150 SIP users, voice mail and maybe 
> IVR. I will use GSM audio codec.

> Maybe in the future I'll connect a E1 line to the PSTN.

> What Asterisk version is better to me and why ???

The answer you are looking for is that you should be using a supported, 
stable version, and right now, 1.4 is the only one that fits. If I were 
starting today, I'd go with 1.4.

But I have to ask: Why GSM? If everything is in-house on the same LAN, 
then why not G711a? E1 is G711a, so you'd have to get the box to transcode 
to G711, which depending on the number of calls and CPU, might be an 
issue...

Gordon