[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk VS. Skype

[Matt]

>>B) Asterisk won't be adding latency on LAN->LAN, it's your end clients -
try Firefly - www.virbiage.com (insert bias comment here) and see if
>>that's addresses your issues.
In my (limited) experience I've found softclients always produced poor
results (choppy lagged voice); CISCO-ATA and CISCO7960 however performed
perfectly and usually better than PSTN call quality.  I spent two hours
chatting to my friend in the US (I live in the UK) and he was stunned at the
end of the call when I told him it was a voip->pstn call via voicepulse.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Adam Hart
Sent: 30 April 2004 00:23
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk VS. Skype

A) Skype uses iLBC as a codec which Asterisk already has
B) Asterisk won't be adding latency on LAN->LAN, it's your end clients - try
Firefly - www.virbiage.com (insert bias comment here) and see if that's
addresses your issues.


Mathieu Nantel wrote:
> This might have been talked about before, but I'm posting anyhow.
> 
> I've got down to testing Asterisk yesterday, and I couldn't help but 
> compare it with Skype (a Windoze only product, yet, but extremely 
> efficient for some reason).
> 
> Skype has almost unperceptible delay (LAN), while there is almost half 
> a second of delay regardless of the codec on Asterisk.
> 
> An even if we were to eliminate the latency on asterisk, Skype has at 
> least 2x the quality of PSTN, let alone any codec on asterisk.
> 
> So I ask: are there no royalty-free codecs that come close to those 
> from GIPS? (I understand these people are supplying the codecs for Skype).
> 
> Or is there something I'm doing wrong? What configuration yields the 
> highest quality and the lowest bitrate? I'm talking LAN communication
> here: plenty of bandwidth, no latency.
> 
> (I'm aware that this could be a flamebait. Bring em on.)
> 
> --   
> Mathieu Nantel
> TecLinux.com
> mnantel at teclinux.com
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