Hi Dave, Down here in Brazil, the bandwidth costs is very high (around U$ 400.00/Mb) so it should be valid only for a "non" third world country. G729 and G723.1 is almost a law here, if you don't play at least with G729 your ITSP is out of mark share!
My 2 cents from a third world country. Regards, Rodrigo Telles Em 23-01-2009 03:09, David Knell escreveu: > Steve Underwood wrote: >> Depends what you are after. Speex offers the quality of G.729 at around >> the same processing load. However, nobody seems to want to pay for the >> processing load of G.729. Almost everything uses G.729A. Half the >> processing load, but significantly poorer quality. >> >> VoIP is mostly a race to the bottom, and people wonder why it makes no >> money for provides. :-\ >> > And, at the wholesale level, it makes no sense whatsoever to compress calls > any more: bandwidth is so cheap (and has been for a while) that the loss in > call quality - especially from tandem compressions - and the increased > processing requirements and other bits of expense do not stack up. Case in > point: we moved a route from G.711 to G.729, and saw the ACD drop from > over 10 to under 7 minutes. It was a route to mobiles, so the audio was > being > recompressed with the GSM codec on its way to the handsets. Economically, > had we carried on using G.729, we'd have lost about 30% of our margin on > that route. > > --Dave _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-users mailing list Freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org