My assignment today is:
I have around 20 personal computers in LAN which needs to be communicated with asterisk software pbx within a week of time.The usage is for calling inside the campus as well as outside PSTN numbers
Please I am newbie, somebody help me
Hope I need Wildcard TDM400P and a Linux Server
Any suggestions from other users who utilize this sw the same way, are very much welcome.
Anyway, you’ll need a LAN set up between the boxes and the asterisk server and a softphone running on each one. Depending on what sort of TDM400P you’ve got, you may be able to use that to connect to the PSTN.
At a very cursory glance, it looks like crap. I don’t think it’s what you want, anyway.
As far as linux softphones go, i’ve tried out quite a few.
For general purpose use, iaxComm’s one i’ve used quite a bit and would like to be able to use - but i seem to get audio quality problems with it (although it’s hard to pin it down).
Kiax could be ok, but i’m not all that keen on it. Although i can’t remember why now!
SJPhone is the one i’m using at the moment and the one that seems to work best out of everything i’ve tried. It’s pretty good generally, but i haven’t been all that keen on it’s user interface. Although i like it more than i used to, but it’s got a couple of annoying limitations - like the “-geometry” option doesn’t seem to work with it, for example.
And Linphone’s one i’ve used a bit and would like to be able to use more - but i can’t get it to work properly on my current setup (and i can’t get the CVS version to build!). It’s the only one that works with the jack audio connection kit - which would allow it to be used in a radio studio for example, for talkback or phone recording. I really want to get it working again!
That’s it for linux softphones, as far as i’m concerned. There’s one (“cornfed sipua” i think) which looks potentially ok, but has got some dodgy built-in monitoring system which sends reports on how you’re using it to the developer!!! And one or two others which just don’t seem to work or have other problems which make them not much use.
iaxComm is good and has only one problem - as far as I know, doesn’t support SIP.
SJPhone has the same/oposit problem like iaxComm. SJPhone, as far as I know, doesn’t support IAX. Also, SJPhone has one big advantage, it has softwer that you can run on IPAQ H6340 (or any other pocket PC), so you can use the same softver on IPAQ and PC.
The only softver I have found that supports bouth IAX and SIP is Firefly. I have just started to use it. If it head version for pocket PC, then he would be the only softphone that I will use.