There was a window between the early 2000s and the late 2010s when self-hosted telephony made sense. But these days, there are so many cheap commercial services that it is almost impossible to justify the cost of maintaining your own voice infrastructure. Moreover, the proliferation of spam / scam calls has tarnished the perception phone interactions so much that most people avoid them at all costs.
And the few people who do still use the phone absolutely, unequivocally do not want to talk to an AI voice agent ever.
I set up Asterisk systems for a few small businesses in the mid-2000's (5 to 50 extensions.) It was seriously fun working with that stuff. These days I'll do almost anything to avoid phone calls.
Thanks, it depends a lot on what are you trying to do, if you are going to use just cloud providers you don't need a heavy system , a simple system with 2 cores 4 GB RAM with asterisk should suffice, if the call volume is low.
But if you want to go full local route then you need GPU and if call volume is heavy then more RAM and CPU.
Basic hardware should be handle 20-30 concurrent calls with a cloud provider.
Freepbx, Fusionpbx uses Freeswitch. This is built for Asterisk but there is nothing stopping from setting a SIP trunk from Freeswtich to Asterisk box to make use of Agents like this user did https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk/...
Freepbxx built on Asterisk primarily for single orgs whereas Fusionpbx is built on freeswitch designed for multi tenant and carrier grade deployments. Is that what you were looking for or something more specific in relation to this project ?
Vicidial experimental right now and is on the roadmap as soon as I get time and setup vicidial in my own environment, it requires exhaustive testing :)
There was a window between the early 2000s and the late 2010s when self-hosted telephony made sense. But these days, there are so many cheap commercial services that it is almost impossible to justify the cost of maintaining your own voice infrastructure. Moreover, the proliferation of spam / scam calls has tarnished the perception phone interactions so much that most people avoid them at all costs.
And the few people who do still use the phone absolutely, unequivocally do not want to talk to an AI voice agent ever.
I set up Asterisk systems for a few small businesses in the mid-2000's (5 to 50 extensions.) It was seriously fun working with that stuff. These days I'll do almost anything to avoid phone calls.
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This is so cool, what are the system requirements needed to run this?
Thanks, it depends a lot on what are you trying to do, if you are going to use just cloud providers you don't need a heavy system , a simple system with 2 cores 4 GB RAM with asterisk should suffice, if the call volume is low.
But if you want to go full local route then you need GPU and if call volume is heavy then more RAM and CPU.
Basic hardware should be handle 20-30 concurrent calls with a cloud provider.
Full breakdown of hardware requirements is captured in this document: https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk/...
This looks awesome. Great work.
freepbx vs fusionpbx? explain please
Freepbx, Fusionpbx uses Freeswitch. This is built for Asterisk but there is nothing stopping from setting a SIP trunk from Freeswtich to Asterisk box to make use of Agents like this user did https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk/...
can you please give me an explanation of the two though ?
Freepbxx built on Asterisk primarily for single orgs whereas Fusionpbx is built on freeswitch designed for multi tenant and carrier grade deployments. Is that what you were looking for or something more specific in relation to this project ?
Just waiting for vicidial integration part other than that everytime good to go
Vicidial experimental right now and is on the roadmap as soon as I get time and setup vicidial in my own environment, it requires exhaustive testing :)
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