[Asterisk-Users] re: changing protocols and transcoding

[Steve Kann]

Yair Hakak wrote:

> Hello all,
>  forgive me if this is a simple question, but does bridging a SIP 
> channel and an IAX channel that use the same codec (say, alaw) involve 
> transcoding? i'm trying to figure out what kind of hardware i'll need, 
> and i'm going to be using SIP endpoints and IAX trunking to move the 
> audio along to another asterisk server (all with alaw), and i want to 
> know if i'm going to need to figure transcoding into my hardware.
> I'm not familiar with the internals of IAX/SIP so again forgive me if 
> this is a dumb question.


No transcoding is done in this case.