On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM, M. Ranganathan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Maybe this has been discussed, or I'm missing something obvious.
> > I built my corporate system on 4.0.4. I wanted to use G722 internally,
> > G729 for external, and the ability to renegotiate to G711 if ITSP
> > (Verizon requested it).
> > Verizon doesn't do G722, so simply putting the codecs at the phone group
> > to 722, 729, then 711 worked perfectly.
> > We upgraded to 4.2.1 a month or so ago. We started going over our
> > allotted bandwidth on our VOIP circuit and dropping calls. After looking
> > at a wireshark, I saw that all calls were using G711.
> > I poked around and found this new (I think it is new) feature:
> > Devices, SBC Routes, sipXbridge-1, SIP, Show Advanced Settings
> > ,Permitted Codecs
> > The default setting was "PCMU,PCMA,G722,L16"
>
> Those are free-switch supported default codecs.
>
> If you pick G729, MOH may not work for certain ITSPs that return only
> the negotiated codec for In-dialog INVITE(no SDP).  This is actually
> an error but some ITSPs do it.
>
>
> Which is why I strongly suggest looking at the paid g729 license on 4.4
which should take some of the pain out of this type of scenario...

> > On a test machine, I blanked this field, and now calls are using G729 as
> > expected.
> > If I understand it correctly, the upgrade puts in a default setting that
> > will not allow sipXbridge to use G729. If that is the case, wouldn't the
> > safer thing been to leave that field blank and maybe advise the user of
> > the new feature? Am I correct that blanking out that field should make
> > sipXbridge behave more like 4.0.4 with respect to codec negotiation?
> >
> > Thanks as always,
> > Matthew
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