On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 13:14 -0400, Henry.L.Coleman wrote: > As I understand it the main advantege IAX has over SIP is the number of > port it uses and therefore its ability to traverse router/switches and > firewalls > Also the higher number of simulatanious SIP calls travelling through these > devices adds a higher overhead than IAX with it's single port. > Personally I like IAX but I there simply isnt enough hardware out there to > use it exclusively. >
What about the bandwidth used for both protocols? Is IAX using less or more bandwidth than SIP? > Henry L.Coleman CEO > *VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355 > Toronto Ontario > Canada > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Dave Cotton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:21 AM > >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > >> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP v IAX2 > >> > >> > >> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 17:43 +0200, Pavel Jezek wrote: > >> > with SIP qualify, I can specify, what time in delay I will accept, > >> > with sip and setting qualify=3000 I can circumvent this > >> anoying messages > >> > (bacause delay in reply is about 2000ms, and I accept 3000ms) > >> > with iax, qualify is working different, so setting > >> qualify=3000 will > >> > "ping" peer every 3s, > >> > quite inconsistent, imho > >> > >> So are you saying that in your world two different things, created by > >> totally different people, must have the same configuration settings. > > > > - You will find DUNDi configuration a lot easier with IAX, although you > > can use SIP. > > - If you use SIP to route calls between Asterisk boxes, you will lose your > > caller id as SIP uses the From: number to authenitcate with. You will have > > to store the original caller id in an extra SIP header, and then pluck it > > out an the other end, if you want to preserve caller id. Yuck. IAX doesn't > > have this problem. > > > > Doug. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --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 -- Guillermo Salas M. Telconet S.A. Calle 15 y Avenida 24 Esq Edificio Barre #2 Primer Piso Telefono : +593 5 262 8071 Celular : +593 9 985 5138 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] www : http://www.manta.telconet.net http://www.telcocarrier.net Linux User: 255902 Beat me, whip me, make me use Windows! Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Please avoid the Top Posting, see http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting _______________________________________________ --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
