Asterisk

Billy Purdue · April 3rd, 2008, 01:38 PM

Does anybody here use Asterisk? I've heard of some people doing some pretty awesome things with it...

ttakko · April 4th, 2008, 04:14 AM

We use Asterisk, we have an outbound campaign with 30 agents and a home-made predictive dialer, with SIP softphones (just 4000-5000 daily calls); we also have a Prologix g3 csi trunked with h.323 to an Asterisk, to use a VOIP provider with our 4620 phones.

A-Train · April 7th, 2008, 08:33 AM

May I ask what SIP softphone you are using and how satisfied you are with it? Is it a free softphone client or did it incur cost? I am hoping to get my company to front some money to build an asterisk box in our lab environment. The hardware requirements are low enough that I could put it on a standard desktop PC, so the only real cost would be an FXO or T1 card and any SIP endpoints. At the very least it will be a good educational project.

ttakko · April 7th, 2008, 09:04 AM

Now we use CounterPath x-lite, a free softphone, but we have tested almost every free softphone, and a few hardphones; we prefer x-lite because of its quality and its auto-answer feature. Zoiper is also a good option. We begin testing with three cheap FXO cards from ebay four years ago, now we have these cards, and three digium cards, we decide to use Asterisk in production because we need a predictive dialer for a little campaign, and PDG was really expensive!.

nexSIP · April 8th, 2008, 04:23 PM

you said the A word

desrae · April 9th, 2008, 08:11 AM

Speaking of Asterisk ... I'm setting it up to accommodate 4-6,000 voice mail accounts. Any thoughts on how I should size the system? I have it on a test server, but due to the need to spend down budgets, I need to buy a new system to go live within the next month. Any input greatly appreciated.

nexSIP · April 9th, 2008, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by desrae

Speaking of Asterisk ... I'm setting it up to accommodate 4-6,000 voice mail accounts. Any thoughts on how I should size the system? I have it on a test server, but due to the need to spend down budgets, I need to buy a new system to go live within the next month. Any input greatly appreciated.

How many concurrent calls? T1 or SIP connection?

desrae · April 9th, 2008, 01:36 PM

Not sure how many concurrent calls, but I don't see that it could be more than 46. More likely about 10. All calls will be for leaving voice messages only, then an email notification will be sent to the voice mail subscriber.

ttakko · April 10th, 2008, 11:36 AM

The only real limitation is the max number of concurrent calls; 46 is not a large number

nexSIP · April 20th, 2008, 08:37 AM

Unless your leaving 46 voice mails at the same time. thats a little bit of a hard drive task. But if 10 is your average yea thats nothing.

April 3rd, 2008, 01:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
Billy Purdue PBXtech SILVER 25+ posts Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 65	Asterisk Does anybody here use Asterisk? I've heard of some people doing some pretty awesome things with it...

April 4th, 2008, 04:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
ttakko Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 5	Re: Asterisk We use Asterisk, we have an outbound campaign with 30 agents and a home-made predictive dialer, with SIP softphones (just 4000-5000 daily calls); we also have a Prologix g3 csi trunked with h.323 to an Asterisk, to use a VOIP provider with our 4620 phones. Last edited by ttakko; April 4th, 2008 at 04:18 AM. Reason: Error

April 7th, 2008, 08:33 AM	#3 (permalink)
A-Train PBXtech GOLD 100+ posts Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 235	Re: Asterisk May I ask what SIP softphone you are using and how satisfied you are with it? Is it a free softphone client or did it incur cost? I am hoping to get my company to front some money to build an asterisk box in our lab environment. The hardware requirements are low enough that I could put it on a standard desktop PC, so the only real cost would be an FXO or T1 card and any SIP endpoints. At the very least it will be a good educational project.

April 7th, 2008, 09:04 AM	#4 (permalink)
ttakko Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 5	Re: Asterisk Now we use CounterPath x-lite, a free softphone, but we have tested almost every free softphone, and a few hardphones; we prefer x-lite because of its quality and its auto-answer feature. Zoiper is also a good option. We begin testing with three cheap FXO cards from ebay four years ago, now we have these cards, and three digium cards, we decide to use Asterisk in production because we need a predictive dialer for a little campaign, and PDG was really expensive!.

April 8th, 2008, 04:23 PM	#5 (permalink)
nexSIP Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 527 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Asterisk you said the A word __________________ http://www.nexsip.com Communicate Openly and Freely

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April 9th, 2008, 08:11 AM	#6 (permalink)
desrae PBXtech SILVER 25+ posts Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 30	Re: Asterisk Speaking of Asterisk ... I'm setting it up to accommodate 4-6,000 voice mail accounts. Any thoughts on how I should size the system? I have it on a test server, but due to the need to spend down budgets, I need to buy a new system to go live within the next month. Any input greatly appreciated.

April 9th, 2008, 01:36 PM	#8 (permalink)
desrae PBXtech SILVER 25+ posts Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 30	Re: Asterisk Not sure how many concurrent calls, but I don't see that it could be more than 46. More likely about 10. All calls will be for leaving voice messages only, then an email notification will be sent to the voice mail subscriber.

April 10th, 2008, 11:36 AM	#9 (permalink)
ttakko Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 5	Re: Asterisk The only real limitation is the max number of concurrent calls; 46 is not a large number

April 20th, 2008, 08:37 AM	#10 (permalink)
nexSIP Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 527 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Asterisk Unless your leaving 46 voice mails at the same time. thats a little bit of a hard drive task. But if 10 is your average yea thats nothing. __________________ http://www.nexsip.com Communicate Openly and Freely

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