SIPFoundry’s sipX 3.0 IP PBX Virtual Machine
I haven’t yet done anything with sipX as far as connecting gateways, phones, etc. I’d be very interested in hearing comments about sipX verses Asterisk or Asterisk@Home from anyone who has experience with both.
Logging into the sipX web interface on this virtual machine seems to be a little flaky, though eventually works. This probably has something to do with the SSL / DNS requirements and the fact that the virtual machine uses DHCP, as well as me not having a DNS record for it in my DNS server as suggested by SIPFoundry – for distributional purposes. SIPFoundry has pretty good documentation on how to set all of this up for a production machine here: http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/HowTo_use_sipX_3.0_on_CentOS
To open this machine, you will need either VMWare’s VMPlayer (free), or VM Workstation version 5 or higher.
Download the virtual machine here, and view readme.txt in the zip file for more information.
4 Comments:
Using DHCP assigned addresses with sipX is a bit problematic. Therefore, before using the image you might want to assigned a fixed address, which of course can be done.
Asterisk vs. sipX comparison: I worked with both for quite some time and think that sipX is clearly the next generation solution. For one it has a much better architecture. But even more important to me is usability and ease of install. sipX is a very cohesive solution and I switched for all my production systems from Asterisk to sipX now. Just my five cents ;)
As a sip only server sipX is great and it works goo.
But if you want to be able to use H323, IAX and other protocols that are used in the VoIp than asterisk wins hands down.
Just my 2 cents adet to the five cents above :)
If we could now just get someone to add their 3 cents worth, then by-golly, we'd have a dime !!
or 10 cents depending where you live
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