Fwd: [asterisk-users] Some queries on g729 license.

[Steve Underwood]

Leo Ann Boon wrote:
> Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
>> Most of the Cisco phones sold "cheap" are UNLICENSED ("global spare")
>> thus you would not be able to purchase (or at least aren't supposed
>> to) the smartnet contracts, you need to buy the license ($100+) and
>> the contract ($10 or so)
> I'm always surprised by by the number of people who don't read the 
> fine print :). Even if you have a new licensed unit, it's only 
> licensed to run Skinny out of the box. SIP requires additional licensing.
>
> Back to the G.729A licensing, I just received a new 'low-volume' quote 
> from Sipro. For 1,000 channels - it's <US$6 per channel (<US$4 for 
> 5,000) just for the right to use G.729A. You'll still have to fork out 
> money to separately licensed a working codec - unless you're happy 
> with the suboptimal ITU implementation or Intel's IPP sample. One 
> vendor we spoke to asked for US$2,000/year to license their G.729A 
> implementation on top of the Sipro licensing.
>
> That works out to a total of US$8/channel if we use 1,000 channel in a 
> year. Throw in the cost of license administration (because Sipro will 
> require audit), the US$10 charged by Digium looks very reasonable.
That is only for Sipro's part. You also need to pay Nokia and NEC (maybe 
others). That should be a similar sized bill to the Sipro one.

Steve