Zulu was trash and sucks up tons of resources on an EC2 instance and brought my PBXs to their knees all the time. On the desktop, nothing I have tried with FreePBX is worth a damn, honestly. It also doesn't have centralized management or deployment support, so I am very reluctant to offer it to anyone else, but it works for my purposes. However, it doesn't "integrate" with freepbx (at least the free version I use on Android) and there are no BLFs, etc. It's basic and lightweight phone app that basically just works. I use skySIP on Android and it has been by far the most efficient and stable for me as a PBX admin. Zulu has no support anymore and is not getting any bug fixes.
There is also the Bria softphone from CounterPath. Maybe this will help you with your decision. Sometimes the call pop is not displayed on incoming call. Also there is bug that the ring tone volume resets after a restart of the app. Yes, this is an issue for a lot of users (not for me). So you are not able to use the buttons on the headsets for answering calls etc. Does not support headsets from other vendors like Jabra. This is confusing for a lot of users because they think outgoing calls are not working. There is a bug that when you call someone who is busy the call just ends immediatly without playing the busy tone. So when you are using ring groups your users will have a lot of unanswered calls in their call history even though someone else answered the call. We are using it in producation but it has a lot of issues though. I think the least worst solution is Sangoma Phone Desktop. unfortunately that's kind of a deal breaker for a lot of my users. What are everyone else's findings? What has worked best for you?At this point I would be perfectly happy with Sangoma Connect if it had fax integration and worked on linux. doesn't require any kind of module to be installed in FreePBX to work.sms & mms do seem to work, but are glitchy.Our testing of this one found it to be severely buggy.can't handle MMS at all- Doesn't have anyway to see parked calls- voicemail tends to be buggy.receiving SMS seems to not really work at all (may be that I'm running it side by side with SC).sending SMS seems to be really wonky (I send them out and they don't even appear in the history).doesn't really have a general contacts list or favorites list.Has direct Fax integration (Can send Faxes directly from the zulu client) This is currently the main thing that zulu has going for it.Seems to be the older brother that was dumped on the side of the road in favor of sangoma connect.
Best one I have tested so far but has a few problems.it's the additional things we need that are giving me a hard time. My findings so far are as follows:Ĭalling on all of them seems to work fine on all of them. We are getting our FreePBX setup and everything that we have tested so far has had one issue or another.