[Asterisk-Users] iaxy vs sipura

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:05:09 +0200, Andy Powell
<andy at beagles-den.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> At the risk of stating the obvious.... if you have a laptop not running MacOSX (ie perhaps running windows) download my asterisk live! cd ( http://www.automated.it/asterisk/ ), burn it and test it on your laptop and bung it in your laptop case along with your iaxy/sipura/whatever
> and errm... problem solved.. :D

Certainly an option, but most business folks will want to have their
Outlook contacts and Excel spreadsheets in front of them when they are
on the phone. Dual boot environments are not ideal in those
situations. Imagine you're talking to some guy on the phone about
prices and he tells you "I cant' tell you what the discounts are right
now because I would have to shut down the phone system to open Excel".

However, you could use VMware on an Intel notebook to run both Windoze
and Linux concurrently. This wouldn't be ideal for a real PBX for
performance reasons, but since all you are going to use Asterisk for
is to be a gateway for one single user, it's probably ok in this
particular scenario.

I remember there was a guy in Romania who reported he had VMware with
Windoze and Asterisk on Linux running as a home PBX on his PC and it
seemed to be alright.

If you'd combine such a setup with a Windoze GUI tool that will start
and stop the Linux environment and Asterisk at the push of a button,
then you'd have a fairly convenient and workable SIP/IAX gateway
solution for travelling biz folks.

rgds
benjk

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