On 3/12/15 9:39 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
Your characterization may be true but Skype works much better than SIP
when it comes to sound quality.
SIP is not to blame for this. Its the audio codec being used. Skype has
spend a great deal of effort with their SILK codec by making it highly
tolerant of packet loss and jitter. The same cannot be said for the
standard codecs Asterisk uses.
I have SIP softphone with Asterisk server and Skype on the same
workstation.
Skype just works better over the same network.
Ron
On 12/03/2015 9:26 AM, A J Stiles wrote:
On Thursday 12 Mar 2015, Thufir wrote:
I'm testing Asterisk at home, crummy connection. Skype works fine for
me, but every SIP client, even without using Asterisk, fails to
connect.
That's ok.
Is swapping out SIP for Skype a big deal?
Stay away from Skype! It is a toxic, proprietary product. The lack of
interoperability by design is the antithesis of what a telecommunication
system should be about -- and the extent to which they have gone to
thwart any
attempt at interoperability is truly shocking.
For connecting two Asterisk installations to each other over the
Internet, IAX
is better than SIP -- that's what it was designed for.
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