Your characterization may be true but Skype works much better than SIP when it comes to sound quality.

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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