Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-05-01 Thread Matt Ranney
On Apr 30, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: There are 2 issues here. 1) Asterisk does not have a RTP Jitter Buffer.RTP is what is used to transport audio for SIP (and other protocols). This means that ANY jitter on the SIP Phone - Asterisk link will cause audio

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-05-01 Thread Richard Scobie
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: There are 2 issues here. 1) Asterisk does not have a RTP Jitter Buffer.RTP is what is used to transport audio for SIP (and other protocols). This means that ANY jitter on the SIP Phone - Asterisk link will cause audio problems. This is only an issue if

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-05-01 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
This is only an issue if your SIP phone has a poor/nonexistent jitter buffer. I agree with that. Asterisk should just forward any RTP immediately and let endpoints handle the jitter buffer - unless asterisk is the endpoint itself (e.g. with phones plugged in its fxs ports).

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-05-01 Thread Jon-o Addleman
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:16:18PM +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver spake thusly: This is only an issue if your SIP phone has a poor/nonexistent jitter buffer. I agree with that. Asterisk should just forward any RTP immediately and let endpoints handle the jitter buffer - unless asterisk is the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-30 Thread mgraves
Original Message Skype uses iLBC codec, which has great jitter compensation. IIRC, the newer SIP channels of * are supposed to have the same capabilities, but I have not tested. I really do not like Skype (prefer FWD), but I must say, over satellite, etc, they provide

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-30 Thread Ronald Wiplinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message Skype uses iLBC codec, which has great jitter compensation. IIRC, the newer SIP channels of * are supposed to have the same capabilities, but I have not tested. I really do not like Skype (prefer FWD), but I must say, over satellite,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-30 Thread mgraves
and gave up eventually. Michael Graves Sr Product Specialist Pixel Power Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] o(713) 861-4005 o(800) 905-6412 f(713) 864-8668 c(713) 201-1262 Original Message Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype From: Ronald Wiplinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, April

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-30 Thread Ronald Wiplinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be ideal is the introduction of an open source wideband codec implementation. Then you could see it adopted into SIP end points and used with SER realtively quickly. Sadly, an Asterisk implmentation would lag a little behind due to the amount of work required

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-30 Thread Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling
One of my user is praising Skype!!! I cannot figure out anymore what I can improve! This users sip show peers is jumping from 65 msec to 1800 all the time. Of course his voice quality is like a morse code with dashes or dots of connection time. The next minute he calls me via Skype and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-30 Thread Time Bandit
There are 2 issues here. 1) Asterisk does not have a RTP Jitter Buffer.RTP is what is used to transport audio for SIP (and other protocols). This means that ANY jitter on the SIP Phone - Asterisk link will cause audio problems. 2) Asterisk times it's outgoing audio based on the incoming

[Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-29 Thread Ronald Wiplinger
One of my user is praising Skype!!! I cannot figure out anymore what I can improve! This users sip show peers is jumping from 65 msec to 1800 all the time. Of course his voice quality is like a morse code with dashes or dots of connection time. The next minute he calls me via Skype and it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-29 Thread Gabriel Afana
One of my user is praising Skype!!! I cannot figure out anymore what I can improve! This users sip show peers is jumping from 65 msec to 1800 all the time. Of course his voice quality is like a morse code with dashes or dots of connection time. The next minute he calls me via Skype and it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Compare to Skype

2006-04-29 Thread Greg Oliver
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 11:53 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: One of my user is praising Skype!!! I cannot figure out anymore what I can improve! This users sip show peers is jumping from 65 msec to 1800 all the time. Of course his voice quality is like a morse code with dashes or dots of