[asterisk-biz] your thoughts - asterisk or trixbox ?

[Marcin Zastawny]

Hello everyone,

I am new to this forum and to asterisk technology from an admin
standpoint (not new as a user, I have used asterisk for about a year
now), so forgive me if this question sounds lame.

Anyhow, I am responsible for setting up an asterisk box that will have
to run the following:
- 1 digium card for an analog line, and for a gsm gateway
- 1 isdn junghanns quadbri card
- coming up, 1 sangoma card (2 port) for a 30B+D ISDN PRA Chanel.

Today we already use many features of asterisk 1.2.4 like CDR logging
and pretty neat dialplan features (call queuing, music on hold etc), and
the junghanns card gives us ISDN connectivity out to the town.

However, I will be implementing the sangoma 30B+D card for a small
callcenter, on top of that I will have to get faxing going out thru
asterisk.

And the question is:
Q: is it worthwile going with trixbox (asterisk @ home), or should I
invest time to get to know asterisk?

Even though I dont have much time available, I realize that once the box
is set up, it seems to stay that way until the next change, so maybe its
worth the time to get to know exactly how it works, without the bells
and whistles of trixbox wizards etc.

I have all the dialplans already working in asterisk 1.2.4, so
theoretically, upgrading to new version of asterisk plus getting the
sangoma card and faxing should not be too painful.

Any suggestions of asterisk vs trixbox are very welcome.

cheers,
Marcin