[asterisk-users] Best Codec

[Henry Cobb]

On 6/7/07, Ricardo Martins <rpoppi77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> We use G.729. Consumes only 35kbps of bandwidth and has a level 4 (from
> 0 to 5) of voice quality. We still have very poor public data networks
> here in Brazil that makes G.711 a very high bandwith consunption codec
> for us.

35kbps sounds very large.  We only use 20 kbps untrunked and 13-15
kbps when using IAX trunks.

Have you verified this bandwidth usage?

-HJC