On 15 Sep 2008, at 04:28, Alex Balashov wrote: > John van Oppen wrote: > >> Why would one ever use non-sip phones? IAX is not anywhere near as >> widely supported as SIP and is harder to scale (due to all of the >> load >> balancer products being geared towards SIP). Just being stuck with >> asterisk seems to be a good reason not to use IAX as it makes it >> harder >> to swap out asterisk for some of the bigger bulkier switches as >> needs grow. > > I mean this in the nicest way possible: you are 100% correct. IAX > is a > tool of either (1) People whose work never ventures beyond the scope > of > Asterisk, or (2) Asterisk fan boys whose imagination does not extend > beyond that universe and who imagine commercial VoIP offerings to be > based around Asterisk, even as their VoIP platform requirements > outgrow > it by leaps and bounds. >
Just as a point of fact, there are other platforms that do IAX - YATE and FreeSwitch both support it. I'm not saying that addresses the scalability argument, but it isn't only an Asterisk protocol. Tim. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
