I have never really bothered to dig into YATE. I have seen this project as a small niche product in the Open Source Telephony sphere. That said, YATE have quite a few nice features.

With the release of Freesentral I finally have a excellent reason for taking a look into YATE.

Even better, if you need a simple way to set up an IP based PBX I can really recommend the Freesentral GUI. The GUI is clear and simple - really uncluttered compared to other front ends.

Even if the project seems to be very young, the GUI is rock solid.

In my opinion, the only thing missing is a ready-to-play distribution.

If you are tired of FreePBX and it's cousins - and if you need something simple and easy to us, you should really check out Freesentral.