Vocal and Asterisk
 

This is just a general question. I was looking around online for VoIP open source software and I ran across two majors (I think) VOCAL and Asterisk I was really wondering about is if they were competing platforms. From what I read it seems that Asterisk is a VoIP PBX but the VOCAL website was obsucre and quite bad so I wasn't able to tell what it really does.

Thanks

You can think of it this way, vocal ( http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=VOCAL ) is a framework for alot of the technology, whereas Asterisk ( http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk ) is a full blown PBX in software

voip-info.org is an excelent resource for all things VOIP, especially the open source stuff.

Cheers!
John