[Asterisk-Users] G729 vs. gsm

[Steve Underwood]

Tim Pushor wrote:

> Its obvious that Steve never looses, even when he's wrong, so arguing 
> about it to him won't get anywhere.

I have been known to loose arguments. Not too many, but some. :-)

>
> As for g729, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality.

I fully agree.

>
> I may be old fashioned, but the purpose of my phone system is to 
> communicate voice with other people, mostly in a business environment 
> (low background noise). MY perception is that it works very well, much 
> better than I had anticipated. In fact, it allowed me to drop a nice 
> IP phone at one of my customers premises that have a less than stellar 
> internet connection (ulaw was stutter city), with no outbound shaping.

I fully agree.

>
> I don't care about what anyone else says, I am impressed with g729 and 
> if it weren't for 1) the cost of transcoding and 2) the lack of g729 
> on FreeBSD I'd be using it more.

I fully agree.

>
> Just my (humble) $0.02 CDN

Now tell me what relevance any of what you said has to the issue at 
hand. People come here looking for advice. How good is it? What are the 
pitfalls? Telling them G.729 is as good as G.711 is just plain stupid. 
They want a meaningful comparison - do I loose a little, or do I loose a 
lot?

>
> Tim

Regards,
Steve