[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH in a University Environment

Thu Jan 12 14:19:33 MSK 2012

Hello Muhammad,

  We tried to move to FreeSWITCH a representative sample of our users.
Thus, it includes a mix of:

   - Users with analog phone who just want a CallerID (in our current
   exchange it is not available). We connect them using a 24 ports ATA (MP124
   from Audiocodes; had others, junked them...).
   - Secretaries who need extra functionality: BLF, SLA, Intercoms and
   multi-lines phones.

The connection to the university's main exchange and to an external
supplier is done via SIP<->PRI gateway from AudioCodes (who did some
software changes upon my request to have more compatibility with
FreeSWITCH).

In addition we wrote some WEB interface so users can manage issues related
to the phone:

   - List, hear and delete voicemail messages.
   - Change some characteristics, like whether to have call waiting,
   whether to send copy of voicemail to Email, etc.
   - Manage speed dials (people like it...).
   - Manage the phone book of Polycom and Audiocodes phones.
   - System managers can do slightly more.
   - We are now building a simple call center with WEB interface to follow
   its usage.

All our users' database is on MySQL.

We have only around 200 extensions as we try to keep the user's old number
and have a "follow me" from the old exchnage to the new one. This "Follow
me" is somewhat problematic, and we have to re-enable it manually for some
extensions from time to time.

                      Regards, __Yehavi:

2012/1/12 Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh at googlemail.com>

> Can you give bit more details on scope, e.g. how many extensions / users
> you need with what features etc. etc.
>
> You can contact me off list (shaheryarkh at gmail.com) if you don't want
> to post these details to whole mailing list.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Yehavi Bourvine <
> yehavi.bourvine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am using a version from mid-October due to the BLF's problem. When it
>> is fixed I will move to the latest GIT (I am doing upgrade to the latest
>> GIT once every 2-4 weeks).
>>
>>                           __Yehavi:
>>
>> 2012/1/12 Anton Kvashenkin <anton.jugatsu at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Which version of freeswitch do you use?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/1/12 Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> Hello Gabriel,
>>>>
>>>>   The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has 5 old Nortel exhcnages serving
>>>> around 8,000 extensions. For about 3 years now we have a FreeSWITCH PBX
>>>> connected aside it with about 200 extensions (we do not put more extensions
>>>> due to potential problems it might create on the Nortel).
>>>>
>>>>   We started with Asterisk and quite quickly understood that it lacks
>>>> some functionality that an organization like us needs, thus we moved to
>>>> Freeswitch, and we are happy with this decision. We also have AudioCodes
>>>> ATAs for analog phones and AudioCodes PRI gateway. Our "smartphones" are
>>>> mainly Polycoms for secretaries and AudioCodes HD320 for "regular" users.
>>>>
>>>> We have to do some move soon as our Nortels are almost 20 years old. We
>>>> are now in the process of estimating how much an open source solution would
>>>> cost us (needs more man power which we have to estimate the amount of) so
>>>> we can compare it to a commecrical solution offerings.
>>>>
>>>> If you need more information don't hesitate to ask.
>>>>
>>>>                        Regards, __Yehavi:
>>>>
>>>> 2012/1/10 Gabriel Kuri <gkuri at ieee.org>
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know of any Universities running FreeSWITCH, or other open
>>>>> source VoIP for that matter, for local call routing between handsets?
>>>>>
>>>>> We're looking at replacing our old Avaya system or upgrade it, and the
>>>>> forklift upgrade from Avaya is ridiculously expensive (no surprise).
>>>>>
>>>>> We'd like to replace our Avaya system with a combination of OpenSIPS
>>>>> and FreeSWITCH and some Cisco routers for external PSTN access, but
>>>>> it's going to be a tough sell to our CIO, unless we can show someone
>>>>> else has done it already.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any pointers to other Universities would be great.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Gabe
>>>>>
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