Matthew Murphy wrote:
Thanks Josh,
I have actually built my own endpoints and was experimenting with
dynamically creating multicast sessions so that I didn't need to
pre-configure the multicast addresses at all. When you say, "...This
eliminates the need to set up a SIP session for each device to have
them listen in, which can be problematic." What do you mean by
"problematic"? I was just curious. I thought SDP was built for this
kind of thing, but I don't know the history and I am sure there are
things I haven't thought of when it comes to implementation,
security, etc.
Normally you'd have to create an individual channel for each outgoing
leg, so given 100 phones that's 100 channels you have to create all at
once. Even using the same multicast stream that's a lot of stuff to
happen all at once. It also takes some time, so phones at the end may
find the audio slightly cut off unless you synchronized everything so
the pager wasn't allowed to provide audio until everyone has confirmed -
which is more more to do.
As for SDP it's just a way to convey the details for media streams and
codecs. As well as negotiate it of course.
Also, do you have any thoughts on setting up multicast sessions
without a priori knowledge on the endpoints? Would I have to spin my
own message protocol to do this? Could I monkey around in the
Asterisk source to make it work? Or, is it just a huge waste of time
and effort?
There's nothing built in to do it... so you'd have to do something.
Other phones just allow it to be provisioned. If you did it outside of
channel creation it's still lots of work to coordinate things.
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Joshua Colp
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