“We are actually in the process of moving to FreeSWITCH right now. It has taken several months of development and testing but it is currently in production on the atl.teliax.net proxy. Once we get a few more bugs worked out we will be deploying it on the rest of the proxies our 2.0 system use. We are very excited about the transition and have found FreeSWITCH wonderful to work with.

Thank you,
Josh”

Yay for Teliax and FreeSWITCH!

All 3 of you don’t get it.
The huge majority of developers want to learn as little new as possible to get the job done.

With Asterisk you have to learn loads before you can use it as an application platform. Once you have it can do a lot for you.

With Freeswitch you can get started quicker, especially if you use the excellent xml-curl interface and move all your application coding to a web service you already know.

With adhersion you have to learn a new language (Ruby) and a new dialect (adhersion)
which will scare many folks off.

VoiceXML is interesting but too clumsy for tight integration and there is quite a bit to learn.

What do we use ? – Freeswitch if we are in a hurry, or Asterisk if we need the features. Either way we offload the application to an environment we know (usually oracle/tomcat/servlets) and communicate between them with http.

We have a facebook app (in beta) that is done
this way, mashing facebook, a database and asterisk to provide a simple user experience.

http://apps.facebook.com/phonefromhere/

Lol i guess people dont read the article where it says when people are able to match Asterisk’s success then they can ‘crow’.

Diego….whilst Asterisk may or may not be the future… at the moment it leads the pack in downloads an implementations…until Freeswitch can match it in number of global users. As a watcher of both technologies I can tell you Freeswitch has a long way to go in documentation/deployment/development – all pretty critical areas it’s lagging Asterisk in.

Cheers,
Dean Collins
http://www.Collins.net.pr/blog