[Asterisk-Users] Re: Media Path Optimization & NAT

[Adam Sherman]

Rich Adamson wrote:
>>Let me restate my problem. I have a group of users behind a constrained 
>>pipe to the public network. There are a few mobile users that will 
>>mostly be working from their home offices. I *really* want to avoid 
>>having a call from a mobile user to a public number cause double the 
>>traffic on the corporate link. Am I making any kind of sense?
> 
> You're making sense, but trying to use the canreinvite=yes is not going
> to be the answer in my opinion. As stated previously, for that to work
> as you'd like, the sip provider would need to initiate the reinvite and
> its certainly not in their best interest to do that (not to mention the
> time they would consume trying to make it work with unknown nat 
> functions at your user's multiple locations).
> 
> There are lots of other ways to address the issue, but in my opinion
> each approach will require spending additional funds. You really need
> to identify the different ways to handle the requirement and the costs
> associated with each. Don't know of any way around that.

Sorry to be a bother, but other ways to you see to address the issue? 
I'm certainly willing to invest time and funds into this, that isn't an 
issue.

Is SER really the solution to having greater control over the SIP 
transactions and their associated RTP streams?

Thanks,

A.