> There is already one chipmaker who thought that > IAX was important or competitive advantage enough > to embed it into their chip.
Which? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:38 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: How far is IAX to be a Standard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IAX really isn't the 'one and only' perfect signaling protocol IAX is *not* a signalling protocol. It is a VoIP protocol. And that's the whole point. H.323, SIP, et al those are all signalling protocols, half protocols so to speak. IAX is a self-contained, true internet protocol. In a world where everything is moving towards peer to peer that is an advantage. Dedicated protocols for signalling-only have been designed for large telcos and yesterday's telco infrastructure, not for the future of voice on the net peer to peer style. > signaling (asterisk in this case) asterisk would have to 'tell' the > DSP chip the signaling packets to embed into the IAX/RTP channel. Do you actually know how IAX works? There is no such thing as IAX/RTP, none whatsoever. Again, that's the whole point of IAX. If you refer to the urban legend that IAX always needs a server to stay in the media path, then you would be wrong. IAX has a mechanism that for all practical purposes is equivalent to a SIP reinvite through which the end points then transition to a mode by which they communicate directly peer to peer. > Will any chipmaker (besides digium) > ever see the need to design such a chip? There is already one chipmaker who thought that IAX was important or competitive advantage enough to embed it into their chip. So, precedence has been set already. This trend can be expected to continue. And, no, Digium had no involvement in this (Mark please correct me if I am wrong). rgds benjk -- Sunrise Telephone Systems, 9F Shibuya Daikyo Bldg., 1-13-5 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. NB: Spam filters in place. Messages unrelated to the * mailing lists may get trashed. _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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