First, I wanted to thank Jim, Chad and Francis for their input on the Sangoma. Thanks to TAUG's help, we got it up in less than a half hour after getting the immediate responses (just before Sangomas tech support contacted us - since I sent emails to both).
Regarding the Polycom news and the comments about IAX: First, I have to back Jim's comment - the most important observation of the whole article. My engineer read this and said "what GUI Interface?" ... I shrugged my shoulders and replied "Must be the difference between the open-source and Enterprise editions...!?" [ By the way, with respect to GUIs, we just installed the Thirdlane system for a customer and it is phenomenal!!! A little pricey for $345, but really nice ] And finally, I could resist my 2 cents regarding the protocols. I know that IAX is technically supposed to be better/easier, especially when Natting, but if you consider a professional environment where you are considering operating with the bigger, traditional carriers, you'll always have to revert back to SIP/g.729 - especially since their infrastructure and HW is typically a Cisco AS5350 or 5400. That being the case, we opt for homogony over any thing else in order to achieve consistency and make things more easily manageable. Also, the percentage of HW vendors that will find supporting IAX worth while will be minimal if their biggest market is these same carriers that are aligning with SIP. Bell or Teleglobe will likely never opt for a datacenter full of Asterisk boxes... Regards, Tupper -----Original Message----- From: Julian Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:47 To: Blaine Aldridge; TAUG Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Polycom embraces Asterisk open source IP PBX >>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:36 AM, "Blaine Aldridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So Polycom is working with Digium so their "SIP" phones will be > integrated with the GUI for Asterisk Business Edition. > > Anyone else see something missing here? Wheres the IAX firmware for > the phones and integration? > > Maybe I am just an IAX fanboy. Maybe you are... :-) Seriously though, I think that making sure their SIP firmware works well with Asterisk is a reasonable baby-step for them, one which doesn't require too much additional development effort. They already sell phones that work with Cisco CallManager, and since CCM has gone SIP in 5.x, Polycom probably already has a lot of working code for SIP support. IMO IAX isn't a widely-deployed protocol except between Asterisk instances - someone can correct me if I'm wrong. I've only ever seen one hardphone that supports IAX (from GNet). - Julian -- -- Julian C. Dunn, P.Eng. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Platform Administrator * CBC.ca Production & Operations -- Office: 2C310-J * Tel.: (416) 205-3311 x6988 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
