[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Limitations

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Philipp von Klitzing wrote:
> Asterisk is not perfect, there is a lot of "work in progress" (sometimes 
> too much), but it is the only one of its kind, it works, and it gets 
> better day-by-day. And if you find a way to help with that (and 
> preferably a way that doesn't step on people's collective toes): great!

Asterisk has several significant "limitations".

SRV lookups only try the first host returned
SRV lookups are bypassed for peer/friend entries
No RTP Jitterbuffer
Outgoing RTP depends on incoming RTP
No VAD/CNG support
Using hostnames in config files is pretty useless
No useful CDR info for IAX2 transfers

I'm sure there are MANY more.

Many of these issues might be resolved in 1.4.  Many of these issues 
already have patches in the bug tracker to add that feature, etc.

You can do one of three things.  1) You can fight the limitations.  This 
is a losing battle.  2) You can accept these limitations and work around 
them.    3) You can fix the limitations or convince someone else to fix 
these limitations.  Money works well for this.