[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk VS. Skype

[Mathieu Nantel]

This might have been talked about before, but I'm posting anyhow.

I've got down to testing Asterisk yesterday, and I couldn't help but
compare it with Skype (a Windoze only product, yet, but extremely
efficient for some reason).

Skype has almost unperceptible delay (LAN), while there is almost half a
second of delay regardless of the codec on Asterisk.

An even if we were to eliminate the latency on asterisk, Skype has at
least 2x the quality of PSTN, let alone any codec on asterisk.

So I ask: are there no royalty-free codecs that come close to those from
GIPS? (I understand these people are supplying the codecs for Skype).

Or is there something I'm doing wrong? What configuration yields the
highest quality and the lowest bitrate? I'm talking LAN communication
here: plenty of bandwidth, no latency.

(I'm aware that this could be a flamebait. Bring em on.)

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Mathieu Nantel
TecLinux.com  
mnantel at teclinux.com