Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast wrote: > At the technical level for technical people... a LOT of things are easy. > For the non-technical people... the things that appear "obvious" to us -- > may not necessarily appear to be that way, regardless of the availability of > STUN or outbound proxy. > > The issue with most end users is quite simple. They want plug and play. > > The issue with most power users & Linux users -- is they want control and > flexibility -- which they achieve by many means. What we power users & > Linux users consider to be easy and enjoy doing, other people find it > frustrating and stressful. > > STUN or an outbound proxy is useless in cases where the SIP traffic is > absolutely blocked from the core of the internet service provider (which is > the case in several countries we know first hand).
After listening to some VSPs go on endlessly about how badly asterisk/IAX scales (and dealing with similar issues myself) I try to avoid asterisk and IAX for anything other then toy boxes at home, anyone serious really needs to look at the benefits of other options ;) -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
