[asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

[Robert Webb]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Wayne Gemmell
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:49 AM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious 
> Business?
> 
> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 23:15, Mark wrote:
> >There is really no reason in
> > most cases to pass the media through an asterisk box, 
> unless you need 
> >to  transcode it.
> Hi
> 
> Sorry for the newb question but what exactly do you mean by this? 
> 
> --
> Cheers
> Wayne


What he is talking about is that Asterisk typically wants all the voice
streams to flow through it along with the call setup and tear down. The
only reason that this would really need to happen is when each end of
the call is using different codecs. Like the provider using G729 and the
ATA or IP phone using ULAW. Then there must be some type of system in
the voice data stream to convert between the two.

Otherwise, the Asterisk box should stay out of the loop.