On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:43:58 +0100, Tim Panton wrote:
>On 25 Jul 2006, at 16:23, Stephen Bosch wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I'm setting up a branch office, but I don't want to trunk from the >> main >> office because I don't want to introduce any more latency. Also, the >> office will have only a single extension, so I can't justify the >> expense >> of a second Asterisk server for it. >> >> SIP is a pain when going through firewalls, and I'm worried about the >> latency that would come with using an IPsec tunnel between the two >> sites, so I'm looking for an IAX2 supporting hard phone, and want to >> hear recommendations from people who have had direct experience >> with such. >> >> What are the best IAX2 hard phones? >I've got a couple of IAX hardphones, with PA168, they are useable, >but only just. They are hard to hang up (which is a design problem) >and a pain to get transfer working (which is a software problem). >Much as I love IAX, I advise you to buy a decent SIP phone >(SNOM?). >At home I have a SIP phone and an nslu2 running asterisk, just to act >as a >protocol converter, but any old 486 or PII will do the >trick. I echo this sentiment. Except that I'd recommend Astlinux on a WRAP or Soekris board. Small, low power,fanless, boots from CF or USB key and able to transcode between G.711 and G.729a. Astlinux rocks! Michael _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
