[Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP

[Sys Admin]

btw if there is no good softphone for IAX which does G729, i could
possibly get my company to buy consulting time from say DIAX and make
dante develop it further,

t


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:03:48 -0800, Sys Admin <topgun9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2 reasons for not using IAX:
> A. CDR as part of the media
> B. Not good hardphone / softphone
> 
> Problem A (CDR as part of the media) I am not worried about too much,
> as long as the data is there some parsing will allow me to extract it
> and then do what i want to do with it.
> 
> Problem B (Not good hardphone / softphone)  what  would be the best
> hardphone/softphone to make it work ?
> 
> t
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:15:22 -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith
> <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com> wrote:
> > On March 21, 2005 01:07 pm, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > No.  95% of the marketplaces uses Windows.  Drive the marketplace to use
> > better protocols.
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > -A.
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