New Open Source VoIP PBX

dsginter writes "It looks like Asterisk isn't the only open source PBX game in town anymore. sipX, as the name implies, is a SIP-only PBX project released under the LGPL. A noteworthy feature is the inclusion of an out-of-the-box web-based management console. Read more about the release over at Voxilla."

The Real Issue

[osewa77]

Is that another VoIP company decided that Open Source is a good strategy. That's the real story!

Re:Two Stones, One bird

[Bothari]

Crucially important. Asterisk is the pits to implement for 80%+ of the situations where a open source voip pbx would be useful.

Don't get me wrong, it's amazingly powerful and does just about anything except wash windows... as long as you can get it working properly. But it's not the right tool for a small (think 5-50 people) company which only wants a simple PBX to connect their phones...

Re:Asterisk is also a gateway

[shis-ka-bob]

These questions are so leading as to qualify at trolling and/or flamebait'. Just what OS do you thing they are using with Asterisk? (OK. That is also a leading question that qualifies as flamebait.) But more seriously, I don't think that the question is 'can Asterisk handle 30 calls?', but 'How much hardware do I need to handle 30 calls?' Or even more relavently, 'How does the cost of aquiring and running an Asterisk on Linux gateway compare with the corresponding costs for a commercial gateway?'

Forgive me for being underwhelmed

[lorcha]

From the sipX site [sipfoundry.org]:

sipXvxml - VoiceXML processing engine

The sipXvxml project combined with OpenVXI v2.0, sipXportLib, sipXmediaLib, and sipXtackLib produces the SIP voicexml engine used to power the sipXpbx's project's voicemail and autoattendant features.

License

sipXvxml is distributed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Documentation

Coming soon!

Riiiiiiiiiggghhhhtttt. Cute, guys. Wake me up when you've written some fucking docs.