> John van Oppen wrote:
>
>> Why would one ever use non-sip phones? IAX is not anywhere near as
>> widely supported as SIP and is harder to scale (due to all of the
>> load
>> balancer products being geared towards SIP). Just being stuck with
>> asterisk seems to be a good reason not to use IAX as it makes it
>> harder
>> to swap out asterisk for some of the bigger bulkier switches as
>> needs grow.
>
> I mean this in the nicest way possible: you are 100% correct. IAX
> is a
> tool of either (1) People whose work never ventures beyond the scope
> of
> Asterisk, or (2) Asterisk fan boys whose imagination does not extend
> beyond that universe and who imagine commercial VoIP offerings to be
> based around Asterisk, even as their VoIP platform requirements
> outgrow
> it by leaps and bounds.
>
Just as a point of fact, there are other platforms that do IAX -
YATE and FreeSwitch both support it.
I'm not saying that addresses the scalability argument, but
it isn't only an Asterisk protocol.
Tim.
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