asterisk users - Jul 2005 - Difference between Asterisk and Asterisk@home

Hello 
What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in terms of
functionality.
For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the easy
version...
 
Mike
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That question could start a battle.

Asterisk@Home is a bootable Asterisk system. Think of it as the
Knoppix of the Linux distro world. It could work but that is for you
to decide.



On 7/17/05, Michael Felder <Michael@itmedic.com.au>
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> Hello 
> What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in terms of
> functionality. 
> For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the easy
> version... 
>   
> Mike 
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I guess I was wondering if it was crippled in some way.

Mike 

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That question could start a battle.

Asterisk@Home is a bootable Asterisk system. Think of it as the Knoppix
of the Linux distro world. It could work but that is for you to decide.



On 7/17/05, Michael Felder <Michael@itmedic.com.au>
wrote:
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> Hello
> What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in terms of
> functionality.
> For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the easy 
> version...
>   
> Mike
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Not in any way that you would be worried about for at least a while. It
does restrict what you can customize but by the time you get to that
stage (I still haven't - you can install your own version)

Cheers,
Dean

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> I guess I was wondering if it was crippled in some way.
> 
> Mike
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> Asterisk@home
> 
> That question could start a battle.
> 
> Asterisk@Home is a bootable Asterisk system. Think of it as the
Knoppix
> of the Linux distro world. It could work but that is for you to
decide.
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/17/05, Michael Felder <Michael@itmedic.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> > What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in terms
of
> 
> > functionality.
> > For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the easy
> > version...
> >
> > Mike
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I think that AAH would suit you fine for a small business application. 
It is not crippled in any way. Far from it in fact. It has more features 
installed as default than the latest CVS version.

It is however based on the latest "official" release of the Asterisk 
code (whatever that is at the time you download the disk) and so may not 
have some of the latest bug fixes etc.

Go for it! I've install a few for my customers and they love it.

Mark

Michael Felder wrote:
> Hello 
> What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in terms of
> functionality.
> For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the easy
> version...
>  
> Mike
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Michael Felder wrote:
> Hello
> What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in terms of 
> functionality.
> For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the easy 
> version...
>  
> Mike
Asterisk@Home is a Linux distribution that makes it easy to install 
Asterisk and a few other Asterisk related applications (like AMP).

Asterisk is the main application that makes Asterisk@Home different from 
the CentOS distro (which is what it is based off of).

Your question is a little like what is the difference between Apache and 
Fedora (Fedora usually includes Apache on server installs).

That being said, Asterisk@Home is crippled, but only because by default 
is uses AMP, which somewhat limits what you can change via it's interface.

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner

my $0.02...
 
I have implemented *@H 0.9 in a Real Estate/Legal office with 6 phones
and 3 incoming lines using TDM04B card and Polycom/Sipura phones.
 
I am about to implement 3 more systems (*@H 1.3) for a construction
company.  One will be 6 phones and 4 PSTN lines using SPA-3000 ATA's.
The second will be 2x TDM04B connecting to 6 lines to start with 10
Polycom IP-501 phones.  The third system has not yet been designed. but
will be 4 lines and 6 - 7 phones.
 
The Real Estate system is running *@H 0.9 and has been running for 59
days since the last reboot, which I did when I added the Polycom phones.
This is a fairly light-use system averaging about 1700 minutes/mo in
usage.  It is setup to have an Auto-Attendant when no one is present and
to have the phones answered live when the receptionist is at her desk.
I setup a "* + number" code for the receptionist to dial to toggle the
Auto-attendant.
 
As of yet I have not run into any problems running the one system in
production, and we are confident in the other 3 systems that are about
to be implemented.  The systems that will be implemented soon will have
pretty high call volume, as these are for a construction job trailers on
pretty large scale projects.
 
I started off by exploring Asterisk and actually built a couple of test
systems without using *@H.  I was able to figure out the configurations
and actually had no problems setting up the test systems (for me it was
pretty simple even though I had never touched linux before).  I created
a set of config files that I was going to copy from server to server to
aid the implementation, and I was ready to build the server for the Real
Estate office...  
 
Then, I ran across *@H and after playing with it a little bit determined
that it provided a quicker setup process and provided all the features
that we would need.  Clearly, there are some things that are easier to
do without *@H due to the limitations provided by AMP... but I have
found that for these small office implementations, this has not been an
issue.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Jeff Busch
busch.consult@gmail.com


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Hello 
What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in terms of
functionality.
For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the easy
version...
 
Mike
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