Topic: Sail versions - What to use?

[pfloor]

There are so many packages available for Selintra-Sail that I have become a bit confused as to which ones are alpha, beta and stable.

I would like to know the alpha, beta and stable versions of:

selintra-sail
smeserver-asterisk
smeserver-asterisk-zappri-MPP

Thanks,
Paul

[SARK devs]

Believe me, we're just as confused as you are -

In general use the very latest 1.2 version of asterisk and zappri.  These are stable.

For SAIL use a late version of 2.1.14- we are running -438 on our production switch.

If you want to be bleeding edge then use asterisk 1.4 and SAIL 2.1.15.

Best

Selintra

[pfloor]

No "Bleeding Edge" for me, this must work on a production server.

-438, Would that be considered alpha, beta or current stable production?

What about -452?

Also, I notice you don't really endorse any specific hardware.  What is your view on:

Digium TDM04B
Granstream GXP-2000

Thanks,

Paul

[gippsweb]

I've been using that Digium card (although in a different config) for some 18 trouble free months now.

I'm using Linksys SPA-941/942's in house, but have a couple of customers using Grandstreams and haven't heard any complaints about them.

[SARK devs]

Hi

I would regard -438 as pretty good. There are no bugs in it which will make you cry.  One or two small glitches here and there but we have it in production at quite a few sites.

As to hardware endorsement.  As a rule we try to remain unbiased, however, we are Snom, Aastra, Multitech, Cisco/Linksys and Digium resellers so I guess we must have some bias.

For professional use we don't recommend grandstream.  In most respects the GXP2000 is a pretty good low-budget phone but it has a few flaws; the speakers are awful and the non-POE power supply take-off (on the rear of the phone) is very flimsy and tends to shear away from the main housing if the unit gets dropped.  For SOHO use it's probably fine and we do have a couple here which we use for testing and provisioning purposes. If you like what it does then I would recommend you take a look at the Aastra 9133i before you decide.

For professional use we tend to recommend Snoms, simply because they are the "benchmark" SIP device and they can do a lot of stuff in their own right which adds to the overall value which the customer experiences.

The Aastra range is good value for money and, being built by a trad. phone company, the acoustics are excellent.  They are only let down by the the amount of bleedback which they put onto the earpiece during a call.  Some customers hate this, others don't seem to mind.

Of the phones we don't sell, my personal favorite is the Polycomm. Superb build quality (if rather quirky looks) and really nice usability with the softscreen leading you through the available choices at any given time.  Nice but expensive -

Digium TDM boards.  We almost gave up on TDM boards earlier this year, simply because we could not crack the echo problems we were getting with them.  However, since the arrival of FXOTUNE and our implementation of it into SAIL, we now get near perfect sound quality every time.

Preferred set up.   We normally recommend ISDN BRI or PRI to our customers (you might be surprised at how many commercial SAIL installs NEVER make an external SIP or IAX call ).

For up to 3xBRI circuits we standardised on Billion  passive cards some time ago because they just work and with the Florz patch fitted use very little CPU.  For PRI we standardise on the MultiTech MVP3010 because it's a carrier class gateway and it just works.  

Hope this helps

S