asterisk users - Jun 2005 - Chan_Woomera beta released at www.pbxfreeware.org

chan_woomera is another alternative h323 implementation.

visit www.pbxfreeware.org for more information.

Thanks,
Brian
www.cluecon.com

On Thursday 23 June 2005 22:41, Brian West wrote:
> chan_woomera is another alternative h323 implementation.
>
> visit www.pbxfreeware.org for more information.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
> www.cluecon.com
On behalf of everyone I would like to thank Brian, Anthony and Craig for their 
hard work. We have all been waiting for this...

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Peter Nixon
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On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:41 -0500, Brian West wrote:
> chan_woomera is another alternative h323 implementation.
> 
> visit www.pbxfreeware.org for more information.
> 
Without being rude, why do we need another one? ie, why did you decide
that another one needed to be written, what are the advantages (and
dis-advantages) ??

Also, why does H323 seem to be so difficult, there is only one SIP
channel, one MGCP channel, etc... what happened to H323 ??

Regards,
Adam

> On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:41 -0500, Brian West wrote:
> > chan_woomera is another alternative h323 implementation.
> Without being rude, why do we need another one? ie, why did you decide
> that another one needed to be written, what are the advantages (and
> dis-advantages) ??
I think maybe you are missing the power of chan_woomera
it leverages the OPAL framework, so any protocol that is implemented
in opal with now automagic into asterisk, h323 just happens to be the first
protocol in that suite... ( think unicall as zaptel replacement as well :)

another advantage is licensing issues woomera is a tcp socket protocol
so you could potentially use commercial implementations of channels and or
codecs
in asterisk w/o the dual lic/gpl issue for channels driver linked direct to
* header files..

IMHO the biggest benefit, is it will allow down the road
abstraction of the channels from the core PBX switch functions
which is realy hurting scalability with * current channel driver design