Thank you all for your reply! I think I'm going to give OOH323 a try. In case I see any functional issues or instability, I'll switch to SIP without spending too much time with debugging.
Regards, Gergely On 17 January 2014 02:39, Vladimir Mikhelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/16/2014 6:57 PM, Dan Austin wrote: > > Patrick Lists wrote: > >> On 16-01-14 21:37, Gergely Kiss wrote: > >>> Dear List, > >>> > >>> I'm about to build an Asterisk 11.7 based PBX from scratch for our > >>> company. I'm in the middle of the planning phase and it turned out that > >>> our VoIP provider prefers H.323 protocol for handling voice calls > (while > >>> SIP is also supported as "plan B"). > >> It's SIP everywhere and anyone who requires you, in 2014, to use H.323 > >> should get a clue. Avoid them or at least demand SIP > > Bah. There is nothing wrong with a working H.323 stack. Just assuming > > that they will have a working SIP stack because of the date can lead to > > heartache. > > > >>> As I never worked with H.323 channels in Asterisk earlier, I'm not sure > >>> if it's stable enough to be used in production. > >> No idea. Maybe someone else with H.323 experience will respond. AFAIK > >> it's a dead-end. > > The ooh323 channel has been fairly reliable in our use case, which > involve > > connecting to a commercial IP PBX with crud SIP support. Only you can > tell > > if it will work for you however, as sadly many times new core features > only > > get tested against the SIP channel(s), or worse only implemented there as > > well. Our current Asterisk version is 11.5.1 > > > > Dan > > > > > > > Sorry, have nothing to say of 11.5 but OOH323 works great in 1.8. I use > it as an Avaya IP Office trunk. No problems. > > As you observed for yourself when you researched the topic there is not > a lot of help available, and Asterisk team prefers to make everybody > think that SIP is the only viable call setup protocol around. They kind > of not talking a lot about their own IAX any more. > > The official H.323 is abandoned. OOH323 is being supported by a very > capable and responsive guy. He does not frequent the user list as he > subscribes to the developer list, so I normally transfer the help > inquiries to him if there is no traction here. > > -Vladimir > > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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