[Asterisk-Users] Why Asterisk can't cope with silence suppression?

[Rich Adamson]

> OK I have to ask.
> 
> Why is it that Asterisk can't cope with silence suppression?
> All the clients seem to be able to but not Asterisk.
> What would be needed to get it to work with silence suppression?
> What is the problem?

Essentially its because * has been architected to send an rtp
packet "after" receiving a packet. If * never "see's" and incoming
rtp packet, then it won't send an rtp packet (which usually contains
some amount of audio). Thus choppy audio in one direction.