>> > and we can bury SIP finally. >> >> Joking ? Sip support is really important. Most VideOIP software support >> it. > > Keep cool! > > I think all he wanted to say was: Nobody who does not *want* to use SIP > but would rather prefer IAX2 (for example, because he's behind a NAT > firewall and has problems to make STUN work properly) will not be forced > into SIP anymore.
Yes, I just want to be able to connect to anyone with SIP. Mmh, I never tried whether IAX clients can work work peer-to-peer (with some DNS tricks it's possible with any SIP client). > If IAX2 will marginalize SIP (as SIP did with H.323) is to be seen. If it's standardized it has the potential to do this within a few years. - VSPs: Less horsepowers on the VoIP servers - Hardware vendors: Much cheaper hardware - Users: Much more reliable, only one NAT-port By the way, about three years ago I did some testing with IAX and SIP. On a Server (Intel P4, 1024 MB RAM, 100 MBit/s inernet connection) I had set up an Asterisk installation with facsimile support. The server was connected to a PSTN gateway of a VSP with SIP and IAX. Then I tried to send 10 facsimilies from a facsimile machine (FAX (analogue) -> ISDN -> PSTN -> PSTN Gateway -> Internet -> Asterisk server). The latencies between PSTN gateway and Asterisk server were about 5 -10 msecs. With IAX eight facsimilies were successful, SIP failed completely! > Just wondering, and yes, this is entirely off-topic: > > Does IAX2 support video? http://iaxclient.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Rene _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list