in your cdr records, all of the variables are present there and they are template-able freeswitch separates the logic from the call handling. On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Sam <lakersman2006@yahoo.com> wrote:
So have you had to retrieve the dial status from bridging a call in freeswitch? For the life of me I cannot properly get the answered_time when looking up the channel variables after the bridge call finishes an answered call.
------------------------------ *From:* Moe Navid <manavid@gmail.com> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 10, 2011 1:44 AM *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] Asterisk to FreeSWITCH migration guide
There is no way by any means to compare Asterisk's AGI with the different facilities FreeSWITCH offers you in terms of controlling your call flow.
For almost 3 years I managed a cluster of Asterisk + AGI + AMI with tones of channel locks and core dumps… Asterisk's dial status might seem compelling when you want to do simple things like calling cards etc… but when it comes to complex accounting and routing sky is limitless with the power of FreeSWITCH.
I found FreeSWITCH's learning curve to be like vim, initially it may seem a bit difficult but in long run it pays of very well.
If you know the difference between Dial command in Asterisk and Bridge in FreeSWITCH you would never go back to Asterisk. I give you just 3 simple examples: 1) Bridge command (via the channel variables) gives you the ability to control PDD on calls. Asterisk does not have such facility nonetheless it does not even bother to give you any useful information about your "Dial Status"! To control the PDD I had to tweak my kamailio.
2) If you want to implement a simple rate engine + fail over routing with asterisk + agi for failover you have to have a loop and watch for CONGESTIONs to select your next route/carrier where as in FreeSWITCH you can just simply define your fail overs in your bridge args.
3) If you are in a cluster, have multiple gateways acting as proxy and you want to define outbound proxy for your carriers/endpoints you either have to define bunch of sip peers with outbound proxies or do it in dirty way which I did, I used to add a header in my outgoing calls X-Carrier-IP and had my kamailio to take care of the rest. In FreeSWITCH you just simply add ;fspath= to your bridge args.
List can go on and on and on…
Asterisk's dial status was the most annoying part of asterisk in my opinion :)
On Aug 9, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Sam wrote:
I find that Asterisk's AGI is much easier to use, they allow you to retrieve the dial status much easier than freeswitch's api's. Come on freeswitch, if you want to be better than asterisk, you should make it easier to get the dialstatus, etc. At this point asterisk is still defacto.
------------------------------ *From:* Nestor A Diaz <nestor@tiendalinux.com> *To:* freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org *Sent:* Tuesday, August 9, 2011 9:48 AM *Subject:* [Freeswitch-users] Asterisk to FreeSWITCH migration guide
Hi Guys.
I am starting to use FreeSWITCH, i am an asterisk user since the 1.0.7 release appears as a package on the debian distribution, at the beginning i was amazed by the fact i can build a PBX for my own business and i did, later i began to install this system for my customers and sooner i meet the problems, however being the software open source i always find a way to fix things using patchs from others, sometimes i felt how my life was at risk when the system stops working and that usually happens when i have to use queues and dealing with digium hardware.
Fixing those problems either by applying patches or by changing the hardware where the digium cards were supposed to be installed helps me, but that was to much stress for me and seeking for a balance that will let me invest more time on services, configuration and hoping to have better hardware options brings me to freeswitch.
I agree with freeswitch philosophy that instead of having thousands of modules that don't work fine i prefer just a few that works the way it should be, a rock solid system for a corporate pbx and a call center is what i want.
So here i am trying to begin the conversion, and i hope the information we can transcript in this list will help others that want to try another alternative to asterisk.
First of all i think the saner for a migration is to have the two systems running either on the same machine or different and use the stable features of each one.
So could you please freeswitch users help me with this rosetta stone migration guide in order to post it to voip-info.org or freeswitch wiki (i list only the ones i currently use ):
*Technology* *Asterisk* *Freeswitch* PSTN Connectivity (Digium / Sangoma) dahdi freetdm IAX2 mod_iax ?? none stable yet. Use Asterisk to forward traffic via SIP. Enable Hardware HPET for IAX2 trunk if card not available for Asterisk Bluetooth Channel chan_mobile ?? Use asterisk via SIP Skype Skypeforasterisk (no longer for sale) mod_skypeopen CDR Stadistics Arternic cdr-stats ?? Queue Statistics Asteriskguru queue-stats ?? Web Management Freepbx ?? IVR AGI / AMI Event Socket Codec G.729 Transcodind Cards G.729 licenses Free G.729 (Intel IPP) Transcodind Cards G.729 licenses fsg729 Intel IPP(any experience with it ? ) Fax Handling Iaxmodem with Hylafax ?? Iaxmodem via asterisk to FS via SIP ? SIP chan_sip sofia ACD app_queue mod_callcenter
Thank you all
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