[Asterisk-Users] G.729 Codec

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

I think that's correct.  If a softphone connects to asterisk and only 
allows gsm, and a polycom 500 were to connect to asterisk and only allow 
g729, then yes, you'd need one license.

I cannot confirm, however, that my phones would negotiate g729 between 
themselves if asterisk didn't allow it during the registration.  Anybody 
have any ideas?  I assume they would, and you wouldn't need any 
licenses.  and as long as your phone could fall back to ulaw or 
something, even voicemail/ivr should work.  Due to network constraints, 
fallback to ulaw may of course not be desirable...

Just to rant, I wish I would have realized this all a week ago.  I only 
have three outgoing phone lines, so should only need three concurrent 
g729 licenses -- 'cause if my phones aren't calling out on pstn lines 
they're talking amongst themselves...

Moj


Yu Safin wrote:
> On 10/4/05, Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC <mojo at horanappraisals.com> wrote:
> 
>>from the CLI, show g729 -- In my situation, with polycom 501s, if a
>>phone calls another internal phone and canreinvite is set to yes, this
>>does not count against your licenses 'cause the phones are now the only
>>devices in the conversation.  you can still find in my phones' status
>>menu what codec it has negotiated for the current call.  When asterisk
>>drops from the loop for me, my phones remain on g729.
>>
>>Moj
>>
> 
> are you saying that when asterisk is used only to connect two phones
> using g729, then there is no need for a g729 license on asterisk?
> by the same token, if asterisk was to be used to translated, eg g729
> to gsm, then I would need the g729 license.
> am I understanding it correctly?
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