[asterisk-users] MagicJack and Skype call quality

[Michael Graves]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:54:07 -0400, Julio Arruda wrote:

>Jason Aarons (US) wrote:
>> My understanding is Skype's secret is using the iLBC codec, which Cisco
>> has also licensed for their 79X2 models as well.  I travel and lot and
>> in places where Yahoo Phone Out or MSN Phone or Cisco IP Communicator
>> will fail the Skype client will work.  The iLBC codec can really handle
>> packet loss.
>
>AFAIK, not iLBC, but another GIPS codec.
>ILBC is present in some grandstream phones from what I remember, not in 
>the Cisco 7912 as one example, not sure about other phones.
>In a word with still many PSTN gateways out there that don't support it, 
>ILBC in the SIP UA side only can help that much :-)..

I recall reading somewhere that in v3 they abandonned the GIPS codec in
favor of something else. It's still included for backward
compatability, but they have a newer prefered codec.

Michael
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