[Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP

[Roman Zhovtulya]

That’s really strange.

I’m testing a softphone-only setup (SJPhone with Plantronics 80 Headsets
plugged into Soundcard) with around 40 users for that are linked over
LAN in an organization of around 300 people and never had any of the
problems you described (the test is going for over a month now).

I’m using iLBC codec and the Asterisk is running on a PIII PC with 256
MB RAM :-)
Outgoing calls to landline via VoipJet and sipsnip.de, incoming from FWD
(landline number provided by ipkall.com for free). 

We are pretty happy with this setup so far. Do you think there might be
problems later?

Regards,
Roman





> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Scott Bussinger
> Sent: Montag, 21. März 2005 20:19
> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP
> 
> 
> > Forget older years but in 2005 do hard phones really add any value 
> > over softphones.
> >
> > The call center agents already have p4 2.4ghz with 512 MB ram Win2K 
> > why not just get them a nice USB headset with a softphone 
> IAX client,
> 
> We just tried to go entirely with softphones in our office 
> gave up after a month or so of trying. I tried probably 10 
> different softphones running on 3.0Ghz WinXP machines and 
> none of them were workable. I tried both SIP and IAX2 
> softphones using headsets plugged into the audio ports, USB 
> headsets, and USB phone interface boxes (www.phoneconnector.com).
> 
> While it wasn't hard to get them to work and the concept 
> would have been perfect in our environment, the quality was 
> _terrible_! We had many issues from picking up radio stations 
> on the audio inputs, voice quality being quite variable 
> (sometimes almost impossible to listen to), some echo issues, 
> and severe delays (as much as 1/2 second at times). I tried 
> SJPhone, Xlite, DIAX, IAXPhone, Firefly, and a bunch more I 
> can't think of at the moment and all showed one problem or 
> another. Also, very few of the clients are really 
> business-ready (i.e. multiple call appearances, multiple 
> lines, hold, transfer, DND, etc.).
> 
> We finally gave up and bought everyone Sipura SPA841 hard 
> phones and we're _much_ happier! I wish I hadn't had to go 
> SIP, but none of the IAX phones looked like good choices to me.
> 
> Be seeing you.
> 
> 
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