asterisk users - Oct 2004 - IAX/Grandstream.

Hello all ,

Someone knows if grandstream will offer some firmware
update that supports IAX2 on grandstreams ip phones ?

Regards ,

-Jefferson Carvalho

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:59:34 -0300, Jefferson Carvalho
<jefferson@credishop.com.br> wrote:
> Someone knows if grandstream will offer some firmware
> update that supports IAX2 on grandstreams ip phones ?
I would be surprised to see that happening any time soon. I know of at
least three, perhaps four IP phone manufacturers who are working on
IAX firmware right now, but Grandstream is not one of those.

About a year ago, there were rumours that Grandstream would offer IAX
firmware before the end of 2003. I was talking to David Lee at
Grandstream at the time and he neither denied nor confirmed the
rumours but said they were looking into IAX support. By accident I
stumbled into a conversation with somebody who said he was working on
that IAX firmware for Grandstream, apparently as a freelance project,
and he confirmed  the rumours. He is well known in the Asterisk
community and not somebody who would invent stories.

Unfortunately, nothing came of this and I can only guess that
Grandstream backed out of it.

It is before this background that I believe Grandstream will only be a
follower, not a leader when it comes to IAX support.

rgds
benjk

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@benjk
Can you share which phone manufacturers are currently working on
integrating IAX? Or was it told to you in confidence? And do you have
any idea on timelines?

Regards,
Richard


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:30:05 +0900, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists
<benjk.on.asterisk.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would be surprised to see that happening any time soon. I know of at
> least three, perhaps four IP phone manufacturers who are working on
> IAX firmware right now, but Grandstream is not one of those.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:44:21 +0200, Richard van Oorschot
<rvanoorschot@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you share which phone manufacturers are currently working on
> integrating IAX? Or was it told to you in confidence? And do you have
> any idea on timelines?
I would rather like to leave it up to the respective manufacturers to
make their announcements themselves.

However, you will probably know that Wasim and his team have been
working on Farfon since last year and he contacted me about two weeks
ago to tell me that they are now taking orders for delivery mid
October. Their website says the same thing, so even if they are going
to miss their announced shipping deadline, then I would think it is
safe to say that they should be able to ship sometime well before the
end of this year.

Virbiage are also making no secret out of their intend to ship an IAX
phone, although, just like the experience with Farfon would seem to
suggest it is far more time consuming to release a new phone then you
would imagine when you embark on such a project. So, I have no idea
when Virbiage will be able to ship the product their website says is
"coming soon".

Manufacturers of existing phones would seem to have a head start if
they intend to support IAX through a custom firmware. One of the
manufacturers I know to be working on IAX firmware is a company in a
neighbouring country of where I am. I believe they will be *able* to
release their firmware before the end of the year, but whether they
will actually do so, that I do not know.

Yet, taking into account that IAX has become far more widespread, that
there is a clear demand, that there is now talk about an IAX RFC, that
at least one chipmaker seems committed to incorporate IAX into the
next version of their chipset regardless of how low end that chip may
be, it would seem to me that we will see a turning point next year.

I had a chat wirh Errol Samuels in the UK on the phone the other day
and he said he would like to see next year to be "The Year of IAX".
Well said Errol! I would think we have a good chance that next year
will indeed become "The Year of IAX".

Part of what gets us there is making enough noise about IAX. Let those
Sippies know we are coming after them. Call up your preferred phone
manufacturer and make yourself heard. Tell them you want IAX, IAX and
IAX and that you will abandon them for the first of their competitors
to launch an IAX phone, regardless of any other features it may lack.
Put the pressure on them!

Also, if you have an opportunity to write an article or speak in front
of a crowd about VoIP, talk about IAX. Spread the word!

rgds
benjk

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