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February 22, 2009

Switched to Elastix from trixbox

Filed under: VoIP — Tony @ 10:37 am

Recently I have switched from trixbox to Elastix, and there is quite a difference. They both support features like call recording, time groups, ring groups, voicemail, IVRs, call history, dial-patterns, etc. A big difference is that Elastix supports fax, so you can send faxes with a program called WinprintHylafax or JHylaFAX. You can also receive faxes by having a .pdf document emailed to any address. It also has an IM server that supports many different clients, so it would be easy to create a secure chat for your company. Another big feature Elastix has over trixbox is that it has RoundCube Webmail. This is great if your company does not currently have a solution for email.

Some other things that Elastix offers are an address book where you can initiate calls just by clicking on the number that you want to call, speech synthesis for converting text to speech, business tracking solutions vTigerCRM and SugarCRM, integrated echo canceler, and support for calling cards.  These are all features that trixbox does not have and not only that but Elastix is just more user friendly and polished.

I will delve deeper into Elastix in later posts. So if you want to learn how to setup faxing or block anonymous calls then check back here.


5 Responses to “Switched to Elastix from trixbox”

  1. twoseconds.net says:

    I also switched from Trixbox to Elastix. I found it had more built in and just found Trixbox CE too ‘buggy’.

    Definitely more polished.

    http://www.twoseconds.net

  2. Jens says:

    We got some clients on Elastix as well. Works good. Still also using Trixbox.

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  4. RackWire says:

    We sell Trixbox CE, but are looking at switching our offering to Elastix. Good comparison between then, I will have to switch over all of our Trixbox KB Articles and start working on an Elastix Guide.

    http://blog.rackwire.com/tag/trixbox/

  5. Oliver says:

    Elastix works very well for 10 of our customers. Thumbs up

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