[TriLUG] OT - well, I do want to save the file on Linux

[John Turner]

On May 3, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Jon Carnes wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:54, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
>> Greg Brown wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> BTW - I think I'll wait for asterisk to get a bit more mature before 
>>> I
>>> install it at the house, or anywhere else.  I've been encountering a
>>> lot of dropped audio, popping, static, and call break-ups using
>>> Asterisk. ...
>>
>> Just in the defense of my phone system's honor, what ever problems you
>> may be experiencing are not directly Asterisk's fault.  :)  Not only 
>> do
>> I use Asterisk at home as a PBX with auto-attendant for my phone,
>> inter-house communication with friends (over IAX tunnels), and for the
>> usual voicemail functionality, I have installed it for more than a few
>> local businesses.  Among these is my previous employer, who a little
>> googling around should allow you to discern with the greatest of ease.
>> Calling their (also readily available) number should clearly 
>> demonstrate
>> a labyrinth of menus, in the clearest and most wonderful of audio,
>> provided entirely digitally (well up until your end of the phone line,
>> probably) out a Digium Wildcard T1 interface card.  It's only 
>> marginally
>> better than the $11 modem which interfaces my PBX to BellSouth, where
>> the only problem is occasional echo issues related to the cheap analog
>> interface (no direct fault of Asterisk's).
>>
>> If you're using Asterisk and experiencing this problems still, perhaps
>> someone on the list (myself included) can help you to troubleshoot 
>> them,
>> but please don't wantonly blame the problems on Asterisk.  :)
>>
>> Aaron S. Joyner
>
> Indeed!  We've been using Asterisk for about three years now in our
> business, and it's been rock solid. We have over a thousand phone
> calls/hour being handled by two asterisk servers and our stats indicate
> that they can handle at least four times that load with ease.
>
> It's all in the hardware and the device tweaking. After that, it all
> runs very nicely.
>
> I highly recommend using SCSI disk subsystems (or a RAM disk) for
> running your voice apps, and make dang sure that you aren't using any
> virtual RAM - especially on a system with an IDE drive.  Most folks who
> experiment with Asterisk and have crappy performance are running too
> many apps with too little RAM and are swapping to an IDE drive for
> virtual RAM... :-(
>
> Maybe would should have an Asterisk table at our next install-fest?
>
> Jon
>

Speaking of Asterisk. Does anyone have comments on Asterisk at Home?

http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/

I was thinking of giving it a try before I rebuild my pbx with Fedora.

John