R: [Asterisk-Users] Cisico ATA licence

[Florian Overkamp]

At 10:20 6-3-2003 -0600, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 04:25, Matteo Brancaleoni wrote:
> > the license is needed only with cisco
> > callmanager. so you can ignore it and use
> > both ports with asterisk ;-)
>
>Thats wrong according to the debates here and on the FWD mailing list.
>The unit that Michiel was looking at contains software that connects to
>the Cisco Call Manager, probably using skinney. What Michiel needs is
>one with the SIP or H323  software load on it. The units with SIP or
>H323 loaded on it usually have the license for both ports to use that
>software.

Incorrect. The load that includes Skinny protocol also speaks MGCP, which 
is perfectly useable with Asterisk. Besides, as I understand it Cisco won't 
care that much if you load it up with the SIP/H323 stack either. But no-one 
will confirm that officially ofcourse.

florian