asterisk users - Jan 2008 - Difference between Asterisk and FreeSwitch

what is the difference between FreeSwitch and Asterisk , whitch one is more
scalable and reliable?
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Please read: 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/FreeSwitch
and 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk

Then if you have a specific question about one of them, 
come back here to ask about asterisk, and on the freeswitch 
mailinglist for more info on that technology.

Or you could put up a comparision page on the voip-info wiki
and ask folks to contribute there.

Tim.

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 11:50:25 love U.all wrote:
> what is the difference between FreeSwitch and Asterisk ,
The main difference in functionality is that FreeSwitch is a voip-switch only.
It does not have any method to interface to the PSTN, other than through
using another host which does have that connectivity, such as an Asterisk-
based host.
> whitch one is more scalable and reliable?
That is going to depend completely on what environment you're deploying it,
what features you're using, etc.  Keep in mind that Asterisk is going into
its
third major release cycle, while FreeSwitch is still undergoing public betas
and has not yet had a single general release yet.

Also, note that the installbase, developer base, and userbase are all much
larger, by an exponential factor, for Asterisk than for FreeSwitch, and
Asterisk has a company backing it which is willing to provide commercial
support.  FreeSwitch, as best as I can tell, has no such support structure.

-- 
Tilghman