[Asterisk-Users] Citrix

[Javier Godinez]

LS,

thanks, very informative...

JG-

On 4/19/05, Loek Gijben <Loek at gijben.nl> wrote:
> L.S.
> 
> > The citrix ICA protocol is fundamentally BAD for audio/video application in
> > general, let alone something as time sensitive as VOIP.
> 
> Just stating that something is fundamentally bad without reveiling
> something of the fundaments might not be very helpful...
> 
> To be clear: bidirectional sound support is planned for Metaframe
> 3.0, you cannot use a microphone with current Citrix versions (try
> some sound application and you will see that a sound input is
> missing).
> 
> In theory there could be use for a Softphone running from a Citrix
> session. When there is plenty of speed and bandwith, and a beast
> of a Citrix server, there is no fundamental reason not to try it.
> However there are three points you must consider:
> 1) There will probable no setting to give priority for a realtime sound
> application on the server, so you must compete with all other Citrix
> sessions for processing power. It might work on some light loaded
> machines.
> 2) There will probably be no setting to give sound priority in the ICA
> channel. So for instance  a print job will render your voice
> application useless.
> 3) Your softphone must keep the settings in userspace, and you will
> have to set each client with some non conflicting ports by hand.
> 
> For a quick and dirty test I put Dante's DIAX on my Citrix server. It
> installs without a problem, and I could use it to retrieve my
> voicemail without  a problem. But DIAX stores the settings in a
> configfile in the directory where the executable is located (you could
> install Diax in each one's user directory off course :)
> 
> To comment on Rod Baker: there is nothing wrong with the ICA
> protocol as it is nothing more than a kind of wrapper around some
> streams (or channels). Just like any other wrapper like say an IP
> tunnel.
> It is just that there will likely be no incentive for Citrix to add any
> prioritation scheme for sound.
> I wonder what the bidirectional support will be used for. Maybe
> speech recognition for Office programs?
> 
> 
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Javier Godinez" <godinezj at gmail.com>
> > To: <Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:30 PM
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Citrix
> >
> >
> > Has anyone out there found a VoIP client that is citrix compatible? I
> > am connecting to a virtual machine via citrix and want to launch a
> > citrix compatible soft phone to connect to another virtual machine
> > running asterisk. Does anyone have a similar setup out there?
> >
> > Thanks, Javier
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