<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Gordon Henderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordon%2Basterisk@drogon.net">gordon+asterisk@drogon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Steve Totaro wrote:<br>
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> Asterisk supports this codec in passthrough without buying anything and no<br>
> real hit on the CPU since no transcoding necessarily takes place.<br>
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> A world wide Asterisk system/network using all G729 from phones, to make<br>
> menuselect and selecting G729 sounds and getting a G729<br>
> origniation/termination is a beautiful thing.<br>
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</div>Apart from MixMonitor, MeetMe and voicemail )-:<br>
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And calls to GSM mobile phones where the transcode from G729 to GSM (via<br>
alaw in the PSTN) doesn't sound that good - even to me and I have rubbish<br>
ears...<br>
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Gordon<br>
</font><div><div></div><br></div></blockquote><div>True enough,<br><br>Luckily, I don't use mixmonitor in that deployment. voicemails are few and far between in relation to call volume and meetme is only used regularly but with very few participants. 3 way calling is usually sufficient.<br>
<br>Would Nconference or whatever the drop in replacement to Meetme have G729 issues. <br><br>I guess the G729 to GSM depends on the provider. Using L3 or XO, I have never really heard any issues.<br><br>On a double VSAT hop around the world with 10:1 or 20:1 contention on a small pipe, yeah, I have heard audio problems but I know for a fact that G729 is actually helping, not hurting.<br>
<br>BTW, I do all SIP.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro<br></div></div>