Dakota,
freepbx is a web application and associated core dialplan that allows you to
do many things on top of asterisk by generating the dialplan customizations
ontop of the base that it provides. Once you spend some time understanding it,
you can usually do most things that you want within the gui and almost anything
else in custom dialplan applications that you can write and will coexist with
freepbx. The dialplan foundation is a bit 'fat' because of the rich
features set and potential that it can provide but allows for much flexibility.
It is not for everyone as it clearly has its pros and cons, but there should be
very little, if anything, that you couldn't do using this as a base that you
can do on a 'raw' system (since you can always write custom dialplan
code).
Asterisk@home, now named trixbox, has been using freepbx (or amp, which was
the previous name for freepbx) as its main interface and dialplan, and has also
added several other packages as you have mentioned.
Freepbx does not provide an environment to easily run mulitple businesses on a
single server. It does provide an ability to give different levels of access to
different freepbx 'users.' However, I personally do not believe it is a
good interface for end users. It may be reasonable to give a non-telephony IT
admin or other knowledgable customer access to do certain basic functions, but
beyond that it is not really geared for end users, IMHO. However - I think going
forward you will see more end users portals that will provide access to change
their settings within such an environment, so that eventually you may be able to
have an enduser portal where they can set their features (forward, cw, dnd,
follow-me settings, voicemail, etc.) on the web in addition to what they can do
from the phone.
philippe
From: "Dakota Burns" <dakota.burns@gmail.com>
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 15:07:20 -0500
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Recommended Web Interface
I'm currently reviewing the latest release of FreePBX (formerly known as
Asterisk@Home). Do either of you know whether FreePBX is robust enough to
handle multiple clients, or have any recommendations on front-end Web interface
to manage client config & provide clients access to manage their level of
access (similar to how Vonage, Teliax, and others provide client access to their
web management console)?
The latest FreePBX is module driven - pretty cool. I've plans to step
through the "Asterisk: Future of Telephony" with old laptop in order
to get a different view of Asterisk. Am used to Linux & CLI -- do either of
you have any preferences? My guess is that some purists may look at FreePBX as
a lesser product but ... I think it's simply a product base built right on
top of Asterisk to help new Asterisk people hit the ground running (and provides
some extras such as SugarCRM, Credit Card app, etc.).
Thanks,
Dakota
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