On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Rodrigo P. Telles <telles-lis...@devel-it.com.br> wrote: > 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.
What is the patent and licensing situation in Brazil? Those are also factors. $10/port might be cheap in the US but in Brazil it could be much more? (I'm asking...) -MC > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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