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Telephony refers to the technology used for making telephone
calls over the Internet. The two major technologies used to
implement VoIP telephony are Asterisk and OpenSER. This article
by Flavio E. Goncalves compares Asterisk and OpenSER topic by
topic and shows the differences between them. If you work with
IP telephony, it's quite possible that you have not heard about
OpenSER, but certainly you must have heard about Asterisk. Well,
I love a polemic headline and I have seen this question asked in
the forums many times. So, I will dare to compare these two very
popular softwares dedicated to the VoIP market. The idea here is
not to show you which one is the best, but mainly how they are
different from each other. Below is a comparison topic by topic.
Asterisk is a Back to Back User Agent (B2BUA), while OpenSER is
a Session Ini