[Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP

[John Breeden]

If you answer the question why 95% of the desktop market is owned by 
Microsoft or why gasoline is used as the fuel for internal combustion 
engines, you will know the answer as to "why sip".

The "best" technology dosn't always win the market.

-JB

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

>On March 21, 2005 01:07 pm, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
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>>Well, let's see.. 99.99% of the available VOIP hardware only support
>>SIP, MGCP and H.323, but not IAX2. Is that a good reason?
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>No.  95% of the marketplaces uses Windows.  Drive the marketplace to use 
>better protocols.
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>>IAX2 calls between servers carry the signaling and media in the same
>>connection, which is good for NAT issues, but bad for CDR and traffic
>>control issues. SIP handles them separately, so you can keep complete
>>CDR without forcing the media to follow the same path. Is that a good
>>reason?
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>Yes, but the dynamic port allocation and ABSOLUTELY INSANE WORDINESS and 
>WASTAGE of the SIP control protocol is reason enough for me to never want to 
>support it.  While perhaps not worth much on my own, I am voting with my 
>wallet and my feet.  I will not support SIP, nor will I purchase products or 
>services which require it.
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>-A.
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