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Thanks Tom. Hadn't thought of that. Tom Lynn wrote: If you have any compliance issues that require Call Detail Records, you'll want to manage the VOIP infrastructure yourself. I'm not sure if Skype supports this type of reporting.On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:08 AM, David Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Thanks Darren. What codec do you prefer? I found previously that the best balance between bandwidth and voice quality was a proprietary one -- g729? Darren Grant wrote: On 10/06/2008 08:56, "David Caldwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I go down the DIY Asterisk route, then my users would be given some SIP software on their PC (not Skype!). An advantage to building an Asterisk (or probably Astlinux) server would be that it would prove (or otherwise) the viability of running an Asterisk-like service in our network. This may ease any future migration worries from those above (and from me!) But are there any other advantages -- ie, if we needed a SIP gateway provider, would it work out cheaper than Skype on such a small scale?; would it consume less bandwidth than Skype (this is my main concern)? The bandwidth should be similar, in fact Skype may use more as it is a P2P system that will route calls for other users that are nothing to do with you if it discovers you have the bandwidth available. One advantage of having your own Asterisk system is scalability, you can start small with users using soft phones to connect to a single Astersik server but later you can switch to real VoIP phones to replace the meridian system and you can add other asterisk servers on the network to reduce bandwidth requirements over international links. We replaced our Meridian system with Astersik and Cisco IP phones. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Caldwell Network Services Canterbury College New Dover Road Canterbury Kent CT1 3AJ +44(0)1227 81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Caldwell Network Services Canterbury College New Dover Road Canterbury Kent CT1 3AJ +44(0)1227 81 1271 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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