[asterisk-users] SIP vs. SKINNY

[Matthew Rubenstein]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 06:15 -0500,
asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com wrote:
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:41:18 +0200
> From: Michiel van Baak <michiel at vanbaak.info>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP vs. SKINNY
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Message-ID: <20080625214118.GG14070 at vanbaak.info>
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> On 14:16, Wed 25 Jun 08, Joe Carroll wrote:
> > Can anyone comment on the performance benefits when comparing sip to
> skinny ?
> 
> Most cisco phones work better with the skinny firmware.
> 
> That is not true when connecting to asterisk though.
> 
> It all depends on the version of asterisk you are running.
> I have a setup with over 20 skinny phones on asterisk -trunk and that
> works great. Specially after today, now that chan_skinny supports
> transfers.
> 
> If you are running 1.4 I'm not sure what is best. It basically depends
> on what you are doing with the phones.
> In my home setup it worked great, but in my business I have to run
> trunk
> for the phones to be as workable as the sip variant.
> 
> The skinny firmware has some neat stuff like XML push etc.
> Dont know how the current SIP firmware is doing, as I have not run it
> in
> over 2 years now.
> 
> YMMV

	Does Skinny let Cisco 79xx phones act as extensions *across the
Internet* to a remote Asterisk server? Does SIP? How do the different
SCCP channels compare to the chan_skinny support, in Asterisk 1.6? Is
there a better guide than http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/chan_skinny
to getting chan_skinny working best with Asterisk and Cisco 79xx phones?


> Michiel van Baak
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(C) Matthew Rubenstein