On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 12:18, niko singh wrote: > Hi, > I have read quitea bit of the available resources and have this idea of > asterisk. Would someone kindly answer these briefly > 1-) Asterisk does not need a sound card...but if i am to record voice into > an extension or dial from CLI ( basically use asterisk itself as a softphone > ) then i need a sound card. : Yes/No Yes, but recording can be done via a phone as well.
> a-) If yes creative soundblaster pci 128 is my best bet. Yes/No Not necessarily. > > 2-) Which is the best codec to use with different softphones > a-) SJphone : > b-) Lipz4 : > c-) Gnophone : Depends on whether you need the bandwidth or not. Gsm or ulaw work fine if you have the bandwidth. g.729 is better if you need the best in bandwidth. > > 3-) Hardphones need to be plugged into the DSL router ( basically need an > internet conn ) ... and need no digium cards. > a-) for recieving calls : Yes/No Yes > b-) for making calls : Yes/no Yes > > 4-) Sofphones run on machines different from the one running asterisk and > can connect to asterisk , which routes the different phones according to > contexts. Yes / no Yes > > 5-) Softphone can run on the same machine as asterisk and register the same > way as if they were ona different machine : yes /no They can but asterisk runs better on stand alone system. > > 6-) Softphones can behave as independent sip phones without asterisk. Yes. http://voip-info.org is your friend. -- respectfully, Joseph =============== ---------------------= Psalms 9:17 = _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users