Randy Bush wrote:
There are many reasons to have an Asterisk box in a stream:
1. Control a call, (maybe you want to do some ACL type filtering, maybe you want to keep track of usage, maybe you just to be in control...)
hmmm. post setup, which clearly needs to go through all servers (or pbxen) in path, i don't see a win here. send more clue.
hide one end from the other. I have a customer and a carrier. I don't want one to know who the other is lest they get together and cut me out of the equation.
2. Provide features (access to PSTN, conference capability, music on hold, call parking, agents and queues..... the list goes on and on)
that's setup not payload
3. Endpoints (User Agents) MAY not be able to send data streams to each other directly (firewalls or nats in the middle)
yes indeed. so one, but likely only one, if they're asterisk, pbx needs to intermediate, not a bunch on a path.
And depending upon your view of things (your view might be different than the view of the IT/communications administrator of a large company), using IAX in a geographically distributed use scenario might very well be exactly what you want (use over an encrypted vpn link, etc.)
yes, it might be. but as you know, i am a big pipe backbone geek, not an admin of a large distributed company. and i am addict of simple (non-complex, not the presence protocol:-).
randy
My comment above not withstanding, might I be correct that your purpose is more along the lines of a personal comm system?
For more similarly minded folks you might consider looking at these folks:
http://www.vide.net/
At least I think they're more into personal, distributed comm systems type things... In any case, they don't have a commercial mindset as many here have. Mind you, commercial is not a bad thing, just not terribly friendly.
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