I've got Asterisk at home (running Asterisk at home) and it works pretty good although the things you need to worry about are who you are getting your service from, if it is using Digium and analog lines no problem if it is from a provider do lots of traceroutes before signing up and check the boards for any issues with them. I'm using VoicePulse and some dispute between Sprint and Verizon screwed my service for more than two weeks. My provider moved to a new hosting site and now I'm in an ideal spot - my ISP to major ISP to their ISP. Works great. But I still have occational issues which I have not been able to track down and I'm not finding good resources to see if it is my router, my asterisk system, or the remote asterisk system or whatever. I'm starting to setup some MRTG graphs to see what my router is doing at the time but I'm not getting anywhere and it is pretty intermittant. In any case I also use the IAXy device (although there is another IAX protocol ATA for half the cost now) to interface my old analog phones to the system and that works great and I've used a couple little IAX softphones that work pretty darn good (although Stunnel was causing some issues with them when talking remote). All in all it is a great system with lots of power and flexibility, but I need some more good troubleshooting techniques and perhaps I'm going to actually have to pick up a book to start looking into that. I do recommend VoicePulse as they have a very Asterisk friendly IAX service that is a half cent a minute long distance and free incoming with an 11$ a month per phone number charge, plus that gets you 4 lines. Although I need to investigate if that actually works out to 8 lines as you setup the two redundant servers each with 4 lines each. I did work for a large company that ran it for all phone systems and we had no issues but we were using all PRI lines to connect to the PSTN. --j Jeffrey Lehman wrote: > I'm planning on setting up a small phone system (~5 phones) using > Asterisk for an organization and I'd like to hear what others who have > used Asterisk think of it. What do you like about Asterisk and what > issues have you had? Would you recommend using Asterisk over a > commercial PBX system and why? > > If the system is implemented, we would start off using the Digium cards > to interface with two analog phone lines, so I'm curious to see if > anyone has any experience with Asterisk and those cards and any issues > along those lines. > > I've put together a proposal for this organization and am just lacking > any previous experience, so responses would be used to put into the > proposal. > > Feel free to respond on or off list whichever you're most comfortable with. > > Thanks > Jeff Lehman > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >