[asterisk-biz] IAX phones

[Tim Panton]

On 15 Sep 2008, at 04:28, Alex Balashov wrote:

> John van Oppen wrote:
>
>> Why would one ever use non-sip phones?    IAX is not anywhere near as
>> widely supported as SIP and is harder to scale (due to all of the  
>> load
>> balancer products being geared towards SIP).  Just being stuck with
>> asterisk seems to be a good reason not to use IAX as it makes it  
>> harder
>> to swap out asterisk for some of the bigger bulkier switches as  
>> needs grow.
>
> I mean this in the nicest way possible:  you are 100% correct.  IAX  
> is a
> tool of either (1) People whose work never ventures beyond the scope  
> of
> Asterisk, or (2) Asterisk fan boys whose imagination does not extend
> beyond that universe and who imagine commercial VoIP offerings to be
> based around Asterisk, even as their VoIP platform requirements  
> outgrow
> it by leaps and bounds.
>

Just as a point of fact, there are other platforms that do IAX -
YATE and FreeSwitch both support it.
I'm not saying that addresses the scalability argument, but
it isn't only an Asterisk protocol.

Tim.