[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH in a University Environment

Thu Jan 12 15:22:26 MSK 2012

Hey,
you should really look into Whistle ! I have a feeling that almost 90%+ of
your requirements will be served by that.

Regards,
Sammy

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Yehavi Bourvine
<yehavi.bourvine at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>>>>> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
>>>>>> consulting at freeswitch.org
>>>>>> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
>>>>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>>>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
>>>>>> http://www.cluecon.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
>>>>>> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>>>>>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
>>>>>> UNSUBSCRIBE:
>>>>>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
>>>>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>>>> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
>>>>> consulting at freeswitch.org
>>>>> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
>>>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
>>>>> http://www.cluecon.com
>>>>>
>>>>> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
>>>>> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>>>>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
>>>>> UNSUBSCRIBE:
>>>>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
>>>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>>> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
>>>> consulting at freeswitch.org
>>>> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
>>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
>>>> http://www.cluecon.com
>>>>
>>>> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
>>>> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>>>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
>>>> UNSUBSCRIBE:
>>>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
>>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
>>> consulting at freeswitch.org
>>> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>>>
>>> 
>>> 
>>>
>>> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
>>> http://www.cluecon.com
>>>
>>> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
>>> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
>>> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
>>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Muhammad Shahzad
>> -----------------------------------
>> CISCO Rich Media Communication Specialist (CRMCS)
>> CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
>> Cell: +92 334 422 40 88
>> MSN: shari_786pk at hotmail.com
>> Email: shaheryarkh at googlemail.com
>>
>> _________________________________________________________________________
>> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
>> consulting at freeswitch.org
>> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>>
>> 
>> 
>>
>> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
>> http://www.cluecon.com
>>
>> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
>> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
>> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>>
>>
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
> consulting at freeswitch.org
> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
>
> 
> 
>
> Official FreeSWITCH Sites
> http://www.freeswitch.org
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org
> http://www.cluecon.com
>
> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list
> FreeSWITCH-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users
> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users
> http://www.freeswitch.org
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/attachments/20120112/8372f088/attachment-0001.html 