Asterisk - which ready-made distribution kit to choose and which softphone is better?

Question

Asterisk

Which Asterisk distribution to choose for a small company (preferably with a minimum entry threshold for configuration and management)?
Telephony will be ip, instead of hardware phones I would like to use a softphone (or from Rarus, compatible with 1c crm, or some analogue - I will be grateful for the tip).
Or not to fool your head and buy a hardware mini-automatic telephone exchange?

Answer 1

FreePBX of some sort. But you still need to study the basics of Aster, it doesn’t start from half a kick without understanding what’s what.
Zoiper softphone is good

Answer 2

In fact, the choice here is quite simple:
If you want to do everything according to Feng Shui and become a specialist in IP telephony and Asterisk, install any Linux and configure telephony in the console. High threshold of entry.
If you know Linux, but a) don't want to delve into the intricacies of how asterisk works and b) you need to do it quickly - FreePBX. Entry threshold is lower. System settings from the console, telephony settings from the webmord.
If you don't know Linux at all - Elastix. All settings for both the system and telephony are made from the webmord. The lowest entry threshold.

Answer 3

as already said here - with the distribution kit "either-or" or AsteriskNow (relatively without extraneous junk) or Elastix (everything was stuffed into the distro) or, on the other hand, take Centos and install Asterisk by hand. Centos because the authors of the asterisk themselves are guided primarily by the
softphone - it's more difficult. here is what your users will need. about Zoiper I can say that it behaves differently from installation to installation. repeatedly caught the problem of sound loss in one of the directions. myself, if there are no special requirements for the functionality and interface, I use X-Lite 3 (namely the third version)