[Asterisk-Users] G.729 vs. G.729 pass thru

[Nicolas Bougues]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:57:37PM -0500, Derek Samford wrote:
> Anthony,
> 	Asterisk by default allows pass through. You shouldn't need a
> license. It's only when you need to do transcoding (I.E. you need to
> decompress the voice, whether it be for Codec translation, to dial out a
> Zap channel, which would be ULAW or ALAW, Voicemail (still technically
> codec translation), or any other number of things.) If you are just
> doing protocol conversion, with the same codecs, then your fine.
> However, if you need
> SIP(any codec other than G.729) -->asterisk ---> H.323 SS(g729)
> Then you would need a license.
> 

I have a similar question : imagine you have G729 licences, and
Asterisk performs "native bridges". Asterisk doesn't do any conversion
in this case. Are G729 licenses counted as "in use" ?

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Nicolas Bougues
Axialys Interactive