[asterisk-users] Silk for Free

[Kevin P. Fleming]

BJ Weschke wrote:

>  Cheaper to give away for hopes of proliferation what you've already 
> implemented versus having someone else get theirs proliferated and 
> popular first and then you are strapped with the cost of implementation 
> of someone else's popular and free codec?

Polycom's Siren7 (G.722.1) is already 'free' under basically the same
terms and is being implemented in endpoints currently. Siren14 (G.722.1
Annex C) is in essentially the same situation, and provides even higher
audio bandwidth.

The selling points for SILK are primarily the network bandwidth
optimization features, but as Steve Underwood already posted, that
requires the implementation to have access to network monitoring
information so that it can proactively make bandwidth changes (as
opposed to just waiting until the packet loss reaches unacceptable
levels and audio quality is already suffering). It will be interesting
to see where this goes.

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Kevin P. Fleming
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