Re: [asterisk-users] is g729 codec free? or under license???

2014-04-07 Thread Jeff Brower
Darryl Moore darryl at moores.ca writes: I'll explain. The g.729 compression algorithm is not protected by copyright, though specific instances may be. It is protected by a patent. http://www.sipro.com/G-729.html An open source version is available here:

Re: [asterisk-users] Half-height PCIe analog FXO card

2012-06-01 Thread Jeff Brower
Ade- Does anyone do a low profile PCIe FXO card? I just picked up an HP ProLiant microserver for $nuppence, which I'd hoped to migrate my Asterisk setup onto. I currently use an A400P analog card, but the ProLiant only has PCIe slots, and they're short ones too, so I can't use an A400E card.

Re: [asterisk-users] g729 freezes 1.8

2012-04-19 Thread Jeff Brower
AJ- On Thursday 19 April 2012, samuel wrote: Just in case it helps: It turned out that from asterisk version 1.8.4 on, the g729 binaries are different from the previous versions so it was a version mismatch between the g729 (1.8.0_3.1.5) and asterisk (1.8.8 and higher). Thanks to the

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk V/s FreeSwitch

2012-02-07 Thread Jeff Brower
Virendra- After reading these web links. it's pretty clear that FreeSwitch is batter then Asterisk feature, quality wise. But asterisk is easy to used. But the question is still open from my end. *How* *FreeSwitch can support 1000CC but asterisk not* ? Can you define your concurrent

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk as SoftSwitch - Hardware

2011-11-03 Thread Jeff Brower
Sunny- I was thinking in Kamailio, but this sip proxy handles only the SIP signalling traffic, no media processing. Kamailio + rtpproxy. -Jeff On 3 November 2011 17:07, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't you be using a Proxy? Nick. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sunny

[asterisk-users] Asterisk with FXO card only, no network

2011-03-25 Thread Jeff Brower
All- My apologies in advance if this is an obvious question and I've missed it on Asterisk FAQs and how-to's... Can Asterisk operate with just an FXO card? By that I mean, no network connection (none, no local network). I want to build some type of user interface to go off-hook, route FXO

[asterisk-users] do carriers detect unusual / unauthorized VoIP calling patterns?

2010-09-17 Thread Jeff Brower
All- Recently an Asterisk server we host was hacked and used to route some unauthorized calls. We have since improved our security measures, including installation of fail2ban. The interesting thing is the way in which this was discovered. The unauthorized calls were occurring intermittently

Re: [asterisk-users] Possible malformed G729B - SID (VAD/DTX)frames from carrier endpoint ?

2010-09-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- On 09/05/2010 04:08 AM, Vikram Ragukumar wrote: Hello, We are in the process of debugging a voice quality issue for a client of ours that is a VoIP services provider. The client uses a softphone that runs on a pjsip stack. When placing a call using the softphone, it negotiates

Re: [asterisk-users] Possible malformed G729B - SID (VAD/DTX)framesfrom carrier endpoint ?

2010-09-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- We are in the process of debugging a voice quality issue for a client of ours that is a VoIP services provider. The client uses a softphone that runs on a pjsip stack. When placing a call using the softphone, it negotiates the use of G729 codec with the remote endpoint (ptime =

Re: [asterisk-users] Fw: [asterisk-biz] To compete with Avaya- What are their current cost?

2010-09-02 Thread Jeff Brower
Don- He is looking for competitive information...what are prospects paying for Avaya when they could be saving lots of money with Asterisk systems. Probably a better question for the biz list, but he doesn't deserve the responses he's getting. Agree. If it weren't for extreme high cost of

Re: [asterisk-users] Opensource Speech recognition for Asterisk

2010-08-22 Thread Jeff Brower
Jeff- On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, David Backeberg wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Duncan Turnbull dun...@e-simple.co.nz wrote: Voice recognition is a pain for people with accents and poor lines and when Everybody has an accent. Some people live in a place where the people they

Re: [asterisk-users] Codec Conversion

2010-08-08 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- On 08/07/2010 03:15 AM, Jeff Brower wrote: Steve- El 05/08/10 14:50, Tim Nelson escribió: - michel freihamich...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Sir, I tried to convert ilbc to ulaw and get the same result...Bad Voice Quality Regards Again, iLBC is poor quality to begin

Re: [asterisk-users] Codec Conversion

2010-08-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- On 08/06/2010 05:40 AM, Jeff Brower wrote: Miguel- El 05/08/10 14:50, Tim Nelson escribió: - michel freihamich...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, I tried to convert ilbc to ulaw and get the same result...Bad Voice Quality Regards Again, iLBC is poor quality to begin

Re: [asterisk-users] Codec Conversion

2010-08-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- El 05/08/10 14:50, Tim Nelson escribió: - michel freihamich...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, I tried to convert ilbc to ulaw and get the same result...Bad Voice Quality Regards Again, iLBC is poor quality to begin with. You can't take a poor audio sample and make it better by

Re: [asterisk-users] Codec Conversion

2010-08-05 Thread Jeff Brower
Michel- I tried to convert ilbc to ulaw and get the same result...Bad Voice Quality I think you have to be more specific when you say bad voice quality. Like what? Worse than a cellphone call? Gaps of audio missing? Robotic or cyborg sound? Static? A background tone or buzzing? iLBC

Re: [asterisk-users] Codec Conversion

2010-08-05 Thread Jeff Brower
Miguel- El 05/08/10 14:50, Tim Nelson escribió: - michel freiha mich...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, I tried to convert ilbc to ulaw and get the same result...Bad Voice Quality Regards Again, iLBC is poor quality to begin with. You can't take a poor audio sample and make it

Re: [asterisk-users] Vocera Comm Badges

2010-07-24 Thread Jeff Brower
All- Vocera badge: * WLAN b/g * Talktime 2-2.5 hours, standby 20-27 hours * headset jack * OLED display (why don't they ever show this on the pics) * Linux based From what I can find on the web, the Vocera badges use a TI DSP (C54xx series) and therefore run DSP/BIOS, not Linux. If later

Re: [asterisk-users] Non-native codecs - MELPe?

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Brower
Kyle- C5441 is a year 2000 DSP chip. If you're considering the hardware/TI DSP chip path, C64x or C64x+ series is higher performance (higher channel capacity) and more relevant in terms of available suppliers, forum tech support, TI support, etc. -Jeff Kyle Kienapfel wrote: For those

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Cluster

2010-05-19 Thread Jeff Brower
Adolphe- Thank you David. I was thing about the cisco solution but cost is the issue as I will so many DSP to for this amount of calls. If you're not doing G729 or other LBR codec (or encryption, or echo can with long tail length, or other high level requirement for RTP processing) then you

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Cluster

2010-05-19 Thread Jeff Brower
Jonathan- On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Adolphe Cher-Aime achera...@gmail.com wrote: Hello  Everyone,                         I  must deploy an asterisk system that can support at least 500 pstn outbound calls. It's a challenge as  it's the first time i'm gonna build such a large

Re: [asterisk-users] OK, I'm stumped

2010-05-17 Thread Jeff Brower
Bruce- On 05/16/2010 11:22 AM, Jeff Brower wrote: Bruce- I'm trying to make an AMI call. I want to call a number, play an announcement when the call is answered, then call a second number and connect the two when the second call is answered. I an able to make a simple call to two

Re: [asterisk-users] OK, I'm stumped

2010-05-16 Thread Jeff Brower
Bruce- I'm trying to make an AMI call. I want to call a number, play an announcement when the call is answered, then call a second number and connect the two when the second call is answered. I an able to make a simple call to two numbers and connect them using the manager API but playing

Re: [asterisk-users] voipmonitor.org

2010-05-07 Thread Jeff Brower
Martin- checkout new open source voipmonitor.org SIP packet sniffer. I've developed it for my telco company and I've decided to share it. Testing and contributions are welcome! VoIPmonitor is open source live network packet sniffer which analyze SIP and RTP protocol. It can run as daemon

Re: [asterisk-users] client-server encryption

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Brower
Iscario- I'm trying to set up a secure VoIP channel between a Windows softphone client and an Asterisk 1.6... server running with OpenBSD. By secure I mean to prevent any man in the middle to reconstitute any vocal exchange nor sender/addressee/any header data/ of the VoIP call (in first

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-04-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Randy- On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Steve Murphy m...@parsetree.com wrote: Assuming that every such spamming/hacking/attack site is funded on a stolen identity/CC number, it will soon sink into Amazon that they are getting a bad rep, and losing money on such problems, as all such charges

Re: [asterisk-users] Improving audio bitrate for all callers in aconference room for a podcast

2010-04-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Pat- As a podcaster I use Asterisk extensively and often have several people in a conference room. We'll record the calls via a SIP phone connected to a sound mixer. Is there an easy way to bump up the audio bitrate for all callers connected to the Asterisk server and improve the general

Re: [asterisk-users] Improving audio bitrate for all callers in a conference room for a podcast

2010-04-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Pat- As a podcaster I use Asterisk extensively and often have several people in a conference room. We'll record the calls via a SIP phone connected to a sound mixer. Is there an easy way to bump up the audio bitrate for all callers connected to the Asterisk server and improve the general

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk choking on voice messagesannouncements

2010-04-21 Thread Jeff Brower
Bruce- How can I find out what the source of the problem is guys? As I said I didn't change anything, except for making few minor changes to the firewall today and that was at Amazon firewall level and not within CentOS. What causes these bad dahdi_test values? P.S. there is only few

Re: [asterisk-users] Slightly OT: OMA DM Solution

2010-04-19 Thread Jeff Brower
Jay- Hiya Jeff, thanks for your answer, 2010/4/18 Jeff Brower jbro...@signalogic.com Jay- anyone knows an open OMA DM tool that would be able to configure Nokia phones (mainly the sip-stuff of the e-series) for use with asterisk? Anything open i could find

Re: [asterisk-users] Slightly OT: OMA DM Solution

2010-04-18 Thread Jeff Brower
Jay- anyone knows an open OMA DM tool that would be able to configure Nokia phones (mainly the sip-stuff of the e-series) for use with asterisk? Anything open i could find was the device manager from funambol, which was last updated in 2006 :-( I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but I

Re: [asterisk-users] Converting GSM calls to SIP

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Brower
Tonty- This is a solution they proposed, using GSM gateways, but it wont let me handle 1000 simultaneous calls, the other option was using an E1 but the cost would be too much to deploy 35 E1s to support that many calls. There might be a better way of doing it. Can you explain the multiple

Re: [asterisk-users] Converting GSM calls to SIP

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Brower
connection. -Jeff On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Jeff Brower jbro...@signalogic.comwrote: Tonty- This is a solution they proposed, using GSM gateways, but it wont let me handle 1000 simultaneous calls, the other option was using an E1 but the cost would be too much to deploy 35 E1s

Re: [asterisk-users] Converting GSM calls to SIP

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Brower
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Tonty T ton...@gmail.com wrote: This is a solution they proposed, using GSM gateways, but it wont let me handle 1000 simultaneous calls, the other option was using an E1 but the cost would be too much to deploy 35 E1s to support that many calls. There might

Re: [asterisk-users] Flood of REGISTERs - attack?

2010-04-12 Thread Jeff Brower
-Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Fred Posner Sent: 12 April 2010 21:57 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Flood of REGISTERs -

Re: [asterisk-users] G.729 Codec problem.

2010-04-08 Thread Jeff Brower
Jim- We have been experimenting with how many licenses are needed when making calls, recording calls and using chanspy to listen in on calls when G729 is involved. I can tell you that way more licenses are needed then I had understood previously. We are making calls via AMI originate and

Re: [asterisk-users] Background noise

2010-03-29 Thread Jeff Brower
Khalid- :) all users are having the same issue, even those connected to this server from abroad! Since you have an identical working system, why are you not able to debug this? First swap the phone... then swap any cards in the server, then servers, then check carefully software differences

Re: [asterisk-users] Transcoding question

2010-03-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Jim- There will be up to 150 phones so there will be 300 channels when they are all on the phone at one time. I will be using a current 1.4 version. That's a lot of channels for Asterisk... IIRC the TC400B transcoding card is rated at up to 96 G729 channels. Can you clarify your recording

Re: [asterisk-users] Metasphere?

2010-03-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Daryl- I'm involved in discussions with my carrier right now and am wondering if anyone has interconnected Asterisk to Metasphere via SIP? Yes, we're served by a Metaswitch usng SIP. Works fine. Metasphere is MetaSwitch's PC/server based system, not to be confused with their larger,

Re: [asterisk-users] Transcoding question

2010-03-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Jim- Jim- There will be up to 150 phones so there will be 300 channels when they are all on the phone at one time. I will be using a current 1.4 version. That's a lot of channels for Asterisk... IIRC the TC400B transcoding card is rated at up to 96 G729 channels. Can you clarify your

Re: [asterisk-users] Setting up RTP to flow between endpoints directlybypassingAsterisk

2010-03-18 Thread Jeff Brower
CDR record for the call. See also http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2010-March/043052.html Yes seems so. Many layers of subtlety :-) -Jeff Am 17.03.2010 23:34, schrieb Jeff Brower: Klaus- Am 16.03.2010 01:42, schrieb Jeff Brower: Vikram- http://www.voip

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP codec negotiation / manipulation

2010-03-17 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- 2010/3/17 Vinícius Fontes vinic...@canall.com.br - Kevin Sandy kevin.sa...@snohio.net escreveu: We're having an odd issue with codec negotiation from one of our SIP providers. Here's the basic situation. We receive an invite from them advertising support for G711, G729, and

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP codec negotiation / manipulation

2010-03-17 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jeff Brower jbro...@signalogic.com wrote: Steve- 2010/3/17 Vin¨ªcius Fontes vinic...@canall.com.br - Kevin Sandy kevin.sa...@snohio.net escreveu: We're having an odd issue with codec negotiation from one

Re: [asterisk-users] Setting up RTP to flow between endpoints directlybypassingAsterisk

2010-03-17 Thread Jeff Brower
Klaus- Am 16.03.2010 01:42, schrieb Jeff Brower: Vikram- http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Letting+SIP+clients+connect+directly The link above indicates that it is possible to setup RTP streams to directly flow between endpoints and completely bypass Asterisk. I would

Re: [asterisk-users] Article - a method on how to evaluate an Asteriskserver

2010-03-15 Thread Jeff Brower
Ioan- Sounds like this would give a useful measurement regardless of server type, network config, and other variable issues. That should be a great tool. Do you have any plans to test with Asterisk in 'native bridging' mode? I.e. with RTP streams not touched in any way by Asterisk? I assume

Re: [asterisk-users] Setting up RTP to flow between endpoints directlybypassing Asterisk

2010-03-15 Thread Jeff Brower
Vikram- http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Letting+SIP+clients+connect+directly The link above indicates that it is possible to setup RTP streams to directly flow between endpoints and completely bypass Asterisk. I would like to know if this configuration would work when, a) both

Re: [asterisk-users] t38 ATA

2010-03-12 Thread Jeff Brower
Steve- On 03/13/2010 12:00 AM, Alexandru Oniciuc wrote: Hello, I need a hand in choosing a small ATA, even with one FXS port, that should do only fax with T38. I’ve tried Grandstream (ht286 model) but the faxes go out without ECM, even if the Fax machine has ECM enabled. Is

Re: [asterisk-users] Phones won't stop ringing

2010-03-10 Thread Jeff Brower
Chris- Sounds like the Toyota bug has migrated to Asterisk... it's mutated into runaway ringing :-) -Jeff Sorry for my attempt at levity; just couldn't help it plus I'm sure Digium guys will know how to resolve. We're having an issue that isn't easily googleable so I thought I might might

Re: [asterisk-users] audio glitches in conference

2010-02-26 Thread Jeff Brower
Jonathan- Jeff Brower wrote: Jonathan- How did you measure the gaps? Using signal or speech analysis software to display the recording? If you measure number of samples between the gaps, does it correspond to multiples of RTP packet payload length (for example, for 8 kHz G711 multiples

Re: [asterisk-users] audio glitches in conference

2010-02-25 Thread Jeff Brower
Jonathan- How did you measure the gaps? Using signal or speech analysis software to display the recording? If you measure number of samples between the gaps, does it correspond to multiples of RTP packet payload length (for example, for 8 kHz G711 multiples of 80 samples between gaps) ?

Re: [asterisk-users] audio glitches in conference

2010-02-24 Thread Jeff Brower
Jonathan- I'm having a problem with conferences both meetme and app_conference, though I've done most of the testing with meetme. Essentially, I get little gaps in the audio - usually fewer than a dozen or so samples, though it does vary. They seem to occur at random, but I usually get one

Re: [asterisk-users] signal problem

2010-02-15 Thread Jeff Brower
Cool Dude- You keep asking the same question over and over, which is not cool. voice mail is working when ever call is received, extension 2000 receives it and if not answered in 20 secs, message is stored in voicemail no problem in that. after creating voice mail if some one again call

Re: [asterisk-users] Muted calls occasionally dropping after 30 seconds

2010-02-10 Thread Jeff Brower
Ishfaq- I'm having a very odd phenomenon happening on our production server (1.4.17 and using realtime). Sometimes a call will disconnect 30 seconds after the SIP phone hits the mute button but it doesn't happen all the time. I've done a sip debug while watching this happen and that doesn't

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4.26.2 died after 80 days uptime

2010-02-07 Thread Jeff Brower
7 feb 2010 kl. 15.09 skrev Per Jessen: Thomas Winter wrote: Hi, my Asterisk on debian lenny died after 80 days. server kernel: [7572666.186852] asterisk[3673]: segfault at 10 ip 7f3b8e90b4aa sp 40bf5f00 error 4 in l ibpthread-2.7.so[7f3b8e903000+16000] Anything what can be done to

Re: [asterisk-users] Help for MOH - sounding scratchy/static on hold

2010-02-02 Thread Jeff Brower
Sandesh- I used the converter to convert the sound file to 8KHz, 16 bit PCM encoded mono wave file which asterisk needs and now the POTS call quality is lot clear than before but the cell phone is still the same, not much clear...i think because of its voice codec as you mentioned.

Re: [asterisk-users] Help for MOH - sounding scratchy/static on hold

2010-01-29 Thread Jeff Brower
Sandesh- I tried using some music on hold (music) files, when I test it with normal SIP phone its clear and good, but when I call from my cell phone or POTS line it sounds a bit scratchy/static and not clear at all, is there any software that i need to install in the asterisk system to make

Re: [asterisk-users] Detected digit 'f'

2010-01-26 Thread Jeff Brower
Kingsley- On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 07:46 -0500, Doug Lytle wrote: Kingsley Tart wrote: Thanks for the link. I looked at that page but couldn't see how it helped with my specific issue, unfortunately, though I admit I'm fairly new to asterisk so I don't fully understand what's going on.

Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie

2010-01-06 Thread Jeff Brower
Allann- On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Allann Jones allan...@gmail.com wrote: But jailbreaking increases the freedom to develop a application and Oh, I agree with you, but it's probably even better to make a decision to either buy into the constraints of Apple or find a better, free-er

Re: [asterisk-users] SkyHost is set to expire

2009-12-29 Thread Jeff Brower
Daniel- no I'm using the real commercial once. I've installed it in November 2009. Did you have the demo version installed before the commercial version? I.e. install the commercial over the top of the demo version? -Jeff F6HQZ ha scritto: Hi Daniel, Are you using a demo/beta version