[Asterisk-Users] Sipura SIP vs. IAX

2005-03-14 Thread Joseph
I'm just curious why Sipura isn't using free IAX protocol with their devices instead of SIP? With IAX NAT traversal would have been easier, so why are they using SIP. Is there any politics in it? -- #Joseph ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SIP vs. IAX

2005-03-14 Thread Roman Volf
Because SIP works with things other than Asterisk. IAX does not. Roman Volf Keystreams Internet Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph wrote: I'm just curious why Sipura isn't using free IAX protocol with their devices instead of SIP? With IAX NAT traversal would have been easier, so why are they

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SIP vs. IAX

2005-03-14 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:47:21 -0700, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just curious why Sipura isn't using free IAX protocol with their devices instead of SIP? * SIP isn't a standard. It could be made into an official standard, if there was a standards document. Someone should write one, and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SIP vs. IAX

2005-03-14 Thread Adam Hart
you mean IAX isn't a standard :) Also IAX requires your call router / billing gateway to handle the voice traffic too (or you put your CDR recording at the end points) With SIP, just the signaling is needed, allowing more scalability. I recall talking about this at astericon but it never

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SIP vs. IAX

2005-03-14 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
* SIP isn't a standard. It could be made into an official standard, if there was a standards document. Someone should write one, and start an IETF working-group. If the IETF adopted it, there would be wider acceptance. True it isn't. However it has a written spec (I have not seen such a