On Sunday 09 October 2005 08:22, John Van Ostrand wrote: > I'm not convinced that the Bell rep is really considering all my options > so I'm now looking for alternatives. > > I do have a confession. I did say that the remote location doesn't have > good bandwidth. What I meant was that I tried to get DSL there, using > the same provider as the central site, and I couldn't. They do have > Rogers cable and I'm now considering trying a VPN and SIP to connect. My > resistance is that I've done this at home (and will continue to) but I'm > worried that the drop in quality will not be acceptable to the customer. > > What are people's experience in this? > > Do I need a VPN, or will Asterisk support encrypted connections?
Asterisk supports encrypted IAX, and there have been some rumblings about S(ecure)RTP, but I don't think there's a lick of code for it yet. I don't think that OpenS/WAN will have any serious impact on your communications so long as the processors aren't getting bogged down. Yes, latency will increase slightly. I admit I have done no testing to see just how much it will. :-) -A.
