[Asterisk-Dev] Petition for IAX firmware

[Paul]

denon wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've put together a quick petition, in hopes that we can possibly 
> persuade Sipura (or any other large-scale IP handset manufacturer) to 
> include firmware support for IAX. The IAXy has proven that an IAX 
> product is in demand, and very useful, and I think we'd all like to 
> see a handset manufacturer follow Digium's lead. I'm not particularly 
> endorsing Sipura, however I do know that they have seriously 
> considered support for IAX, and have decided to hold off until "the 
> demand is there". I'm hoping that with some numbers, we can prove to 
> them that the demand is already here, and that IAX is already a viable 
> technology.
>
> I'd like to encourage everyone to show your support -- hopefully 
> Sipura, and/or other manufacturers will see these hard names and 
> numbers, and realize it's time to move something into production.
>
> Petition:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/IAXPhone
>
> Thanks,
>
> -d

I like to see IAX support in any phone or ata. As for the benefits of 
IAX trunking: Suppose that you have 4 SPA-2000 devices at a branch 
office with IAX trunking back to headquarters? You won't be getting the 
best bandwidth usage unless you also run a * server at the branch office 
to aggregate those 8 extensions into one trunk. Otherwise you have 4 
trunks to the * server at headquarters. With 8 IP phones it's even worse.

So it looks like I need to have a linux box running at each location 
where I want to use IAX trunking. I'm sure I can get the cost of that 
down to something reasonable. I guess the next question is: It is much 
easier to do IAX trunking if all the ata's and IP phones use IAX2 
instead of SIP? A good example would be 8 IAXy devices as compared to 4 
2-port SIP ata's. Is the configuration going ot be easier? How about 
performance and stability?

Rather than petition Sipura, I would prefer that we convince Digium to 
go further with the IAXy concept. Give us a base unit that accepts a mix 
of fxo or fxs modules. Offer it in 2, 4 and 8 port versions. If those 3 
sizes will do trunking and offer the best free codecs, it will eliminate 
the need for a * server to do trunking at a lot of locations. Digium 
should do it first and let the others play catch-up when they finally 
see the light.