[asterisk-dev] IAX Voice Framing

[Kristian Kielhofner]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Tilghman Lesher <tlesher at digium.com> wrote:
>
> Clearly, because the IAX channel does not use RTP.  This is a feature, which
> helps IAX to more cleanly go through NATs, and it may work in places where
> SIP does not, such as double and triple NAT situations.
>
> I really don't understand why you'd want to pack multiple frames into a single
> packet.  That increases latency, which for a real time protocol is rather bad.
>

It sounds like a "cheap" way to do RTP ptime...

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