[asterisk-users] Asterisk 11 and H.323 trunk using OOH323 - is it stable?

[Vladimir Mikhelson]

On 1/16/2014 6:57 PM, Dan Austin wrote:
> Patrick Lists wrote:
>> On 16-01-14 21:37, Gergely Kiss wrote:
>>> Dear List,
>>>
>>> I'm about to build an Asterisk 11.7 based PBX from scratch for our
>>> company. I'm in the middle of the planning phase and it turned out that
>>> our VoIP provider prefers H.323 protocol for handling voice calls (while
>>> SIP is also supported as "plan B").
>> It's SIP everywhere and anyone who requires you, in 2014, to use H.323 
>> should get a clue. Avoid them or at least demand SIP
> Bah.  There is nothing wrong with a working H.323 stack.  Just assuming
> that they will have a working SIP stack because of the date can lead to
> heartache.  
>
>>> As I never worked with H.323 channels in Asterisk earlier, I'm not sure
>>> if it's stable enough to be used in production.
>> No idea. Maybe someone else with H.323 experience will respond. AFAIK 
>> it's a dead-end.
> The ooh323 channel has been fairly reliable in our use case, which involve
> connecting to a commercial IP PBX with crud SIP support.  Only you can tell
> if it will work for you however, as sadly many times new core features only
> get tested against the SIP channel(s), or worse only implemented there as
> well.  Our current Asterisk version is 11.5.1 
>
> Dan
>
>
>
Sorry, have nothing to say of 11.5 but OOH323 works great in 1.8.  I use
it as an Avaya IP Office trunk.  No problems.

As you observed for yourself when you researched the topic there is not
a lot of help available, and Asterisk team prefers to make everybody
think that SIP is the only viable call setup protocol around.  They kind
of not talking a lot about their own IAX any more.

The official H.323 is abandoned.  OOH323 is being supported by a very
capable and responsive guy.  He does not frequent the user list as he
subscribes to the developer list, so I normally transfer the help
inquiries to him if there is no traction here.

-Vladimir