The original quesiton was that if you had a server performing G729 passthrough, could you do recording without licensing. Digium confirmed that the server doing the passthrough would also need a license in order to record the conversation. Using the Erlag formula you can pretty much figure out how many licenses would be needed. My situation is two locations operating as a single logical call center. G729 is good for the bandwidth and works fine with the Tenor boxes I plan to use. Obviously, not all 672 channels would be in use at a time but it could be possible and obviously not all phone calls will need to be recorded. Planned properly, this could amount to significant savings. Thanks, Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: trixter aka Bret McDanel
Sent: Sat 2/4/2006 10:23 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Cc:
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] G729a Pass-Through and
Recording/Monitoring
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 22:01 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
> Digium confirmend that this was still the case but trixter may
have a
> way to at least make things much more efficient and save alot
of money,
> especially in a recording situation. See his announcemnt
here.
> http://www.trxtel.com/index.php?page=G_729_Codec
>
Thanks :)
Only encoding and/or decoding requires a license. If you are
just
pushing bits you dont need a license. This is according to
http://www.sipro.com the people who do the licensing for G.729.
There
is no difference in a license for decode only or encode only vs
both.
They also do G.723.1 licensing and with G.723.1 there is a
difference in
licensing cost for decode only or encode only vs both. So you
would see
a savings if you were writing an app that only recorded for
example.
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