[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk VS. Skype

[mgraves at mstvp.com]

OK, I'll add my 2 cents. Firefly is the best soft client that I have tried. I bought X-Lite,a dn tried a handful
of OSS alternatives. Firefly is the best in my experience. I will buy at least one of their hard phones when it
ships on the basis of my Firefly experience.

Michael Graves
Sr Product Specialist
Pixel Power Inc
mgraves at pixelpower.com


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk VS. Skype
> From: "Matt" <matt at powderdays.com>
> Date: Thu, April 29, 2004 4:46 pm
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> 
> >>B) Asterisk won't be adding latency on LAN->LAN, it's your end clients
> -
> try Firefly - www.virbiage.com (insert bias comment here) and see if
> >>that's addresses your issues.
> In my (limited) experience I've found softclients always produced poor
> results (choppy lagged voice); CISCO-ATA and CISCO7960 however
> performed
> perfectly and usually better than PSTN call quality.  I spent two
> hours
> chatting to my friend in the US (I live in the UK) and he was stunned
> at the
> end of the call when I told him it was a voip->pstn call via
> voicepulse.
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Adam Hart
> Sent: 30 April 2004 00:23
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk VS. Skype
> 
> A) Skype uses iLBC as a codec which Asterisk already has
> B) Asterisk won't be adding latency on LAN->LAN, it's your end clients
> - try
> Firefly - www.virbiage.com (insert bias comment here) and see if
> that's
> addresses your issues.
> 
> 
> Mathieu Nantel wrote:
> > 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.)
> > 
> > --   
> > Mathieu Nantel
> > TecLinux.com
> > mnantel at teclinux.com
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