[Asterisk-Users] iax or sip

[Michael Graves]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:11:10 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:

>i am looking at iax to see if it is applicable to my needs.  i
>would appreciate any corrections of what i think i have understood
>but probably have not.
>
>iax uses udp and traverses nats.  neither of these seems useful to
>me.  i loathe nats, and udp is not well-behaved in the sense of
>congestion avoidance.

>trunking will save some bytes in flight iff one has four or more
>streams moving between two pbxes.  but who would want to have the
>pbxes in the data stream anyway?  reinvite rules, especially in a
>geographically distributed use scenario.

If you are using an IP/AIX based termination provider then trunking
makes great sense. Even in my situation with only a handlful of
desktops I see enough activity to know that I'm saving bandwidth with
trunking to my termination provider.

Michael


>now, i could see a network of iaxen if there was some way to
>negotiate call routing with costs etc.  but trip looks a bit ugly
>and kinda far away.  and it certainly is not part of current play.
>
>what am i missing here?
>
>randy
>
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