>From my (fairly limited) understanding, I think the fundamental difference is that Asterisk is a pbx (offering all the features associated with a pbx, voicemail, call transfer, call detail recording etc) whereas SER is just a sip proxy (albeit a good one).
Therefore Asterisk deals in terms of phones extensions whereas if you want a system that can contact clients with sip urls, ser will have to be set up. Also the audio i.e. rtp stream, traverses asterisk i.e. it acts as a middle man holding onto the call, and if you want the audio to go peer to peer (which it ideally should with sip), ser is also needed. Aisling. ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SER vs Asterisk for SIP Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:50:39 +0100 >Why is SER considered a better SIPserver than asterisk , why is it >that SER >can handle more clients than asterisk can. And if this is just cause >of say >poor SIP handling code in asterisk then is there anything being done >to fix >it. Just wanted to know why SER claims to be better than asterisk as >a SIP >server. ? > >-- >regards >Vikram (http://www.vicramresearch.com) >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >-------------------Legal >Disclaimer--------------------------------------- > >The above electronic mail transmission is confidential and intended >only for the person to whom it is addressed. Its contents may be >protected by legal and/or professional privilege. Should it be >received by you in error please contact the sender at the above >quoted email address. Any unauthorised form of reproduction of this >message is strictly prohibited. The Institute does not guarantee the >security of any information electronically transmitted and is not >liable if the information contained in this communication is not a >proper and complete record of the message as transmitted by the >sender nor for any delay in its receipt. > -------------------Legal Disclaimer--------------------------------------- The above electronic mail transmission is confidential and intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. Its contents may be protected by legal and/or professional privilege. Should it be received by you in error please contact the sender at the above quoted email address. Any unauthorised form of reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited. The Institute does not guarantee the security of any information electronically transmitted and is not liable if the information contained in this communication is not a proper and complete record of the message as transmitted by the sender nor for any delay in its receipt. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
