Yes, this totally not intention. When I visit Adhearsion.com right now, I see the correct site but when Jason does, he gets a redirect to my blog. This is definitely a DNS issue and I’ll take a look into it. Unfortunately, the DNS for both sites is being served by Dreamhost, a site with generally less than stellar customer satisfaction.

And I do like your idea on a howto for PHPAGI developers…

Before you go about and count each carrier that uses FreeSWITCH, I’d like to pin-point the term “Carrier” – at least as I regard a “Carrier”. Companies like Teliax, Bandwidth.Com, iCall and similar companies are not considered carriers in my terminology. Sure, these are well established “Service Providers”, but are not regarded as carriers. During the past 9 years, I’ve been doing much work with various carriers, or what would be regarded as Tier-1 carriers, for example: Bezeq International (Israel), Golden Lines (Israel), MTN (Uganda), Uganda Telecom (Uganda), Orange (France), SFR (France), Vodafone (UK), etc. Out of these companies, I know of at least 4 companies that had adopted Asterisk, in some form. However, the adaptation process of Asterisk had taken over 3 years time to do – and they are still using version 1.2!

It is very simple for “Service Providers” to adopt tools such as FreeSWITCH or YATE into their infrastructure, simply because they are driven mainly by cost based calculations. Carriers think differently – they have no problem paying another 100K per year, maintaining their SigValue, in stead of migrating to an Open Source platform. In their view, the migration will cost much more than the yearly maintenance of the SigValue, simply because they need specially trained people to maintain it and so on. Asterisk currently enjoys a wide information base, a wide installation base, a multitude number of people already familiar with the technology – in other words, for a Carrier to venture into Asterisk is “smoother” than to venture into FreeSWITCH or YATE. For a service provider, it’s much easier to venture into something new, simply because its scale is smaller than the Carrier’s, thus, making it more agile and quick to respond to changes.

It’s funny how you say crap like that when most carriers and businesses are switching from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH all the time.

Some examples are Teliax Inc, Bandwidth.com, iCall, and a lot others.

As for the “business track”, duly noted. We have spent all of our time focusing on making sure we are stable before we try to sing our praises to many and those companies we mentioned who were indeed early adopters have done us a great service in reaching that goal. I’ll try and get some of our European community members to attend Amoocon next year perhaps.

It seems as though you are turned off by the fact that YATE was trying to hard to promote itself but then you commented that we don’t try hard enough to do the same. One would expect from your comments about YATE that you would like the fact that we tend not to blow our own horn. We are an Open Source project, take it or leave it, Like you said, “right tool for the job” use one, use all. If you make up your mind to use FreeSWITCH and you want to get commercial support we provide it but we as a policy do not try to “sell” FreeSWITCH to anyone. But we do offer a triple-your-money-back Guarantee on the software itself.