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

[Gergely Kiss]

Thank you all for your reply!

I think I'm going to give OOH323 a try. In case I see any functional issues
or instability, I'll switch to SIP without spending too much time with
debugging.


Regards,
Gergely


On 17 January 2014 02:39, Vladimir Mikhelson <vlad at mikhelson.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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