What is wrong with IAX2 protocol? If IAX2 is so much better than SIP so why providers discontinuing support for IAX2 I was with provider "callwithus" but they discontinue IAX2 I switched to "checkbox.cc" but they discontinued it as well. What is wrong with IAX2? -- Joseph
> What is wrong with IAX2 protocol? > If IAX2 is so much better than SIP so why providers discontinuing support for IAX2 > > I was with provider "callwithus" but they discontinue IAX2 > I switched to "checkbox.cc" but they discontinued it as well. > > What is wrong with IAX2?The same thing that's wrong with a lot of theoretically superior technologies: SIP is *more* universal, and therefore if it's a choice of supporting two technologies or just one, SIP has more bang for the buck. Almost every gadget or gizmo supports SIP. Few support IAX2. To support IAX2 for the relatively small number of people who know what it is and who are running Asterisk or IAX2-capable gear may be more trouble than it is worth. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
Zeeshan Zakaria
2010-May-12 22:44 UTC
[asterisk-users] IAX2 - providers discontinuing support
SIP is just more supported so its easier for the providers to deal with it. I personally also believe that IAX is not supported by big providers because if they do so, it'll just make asterisk more famous than they want it to be. Secondly, as IAX name suggests, it was primarily designed for trunking between asterisk servers, and it does it with less headaches than SIP, given that your provider supports it well. Zeeshan A Zakaria -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. On 2010-05-12 5:12 PM, "Joe Greco" <jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:> What is wrong with IAX2 protocol? > If IAX2 is so much better than SIP so why providers discontinu...The same thing that's wrong with a lot of theoretically superior technologies: SIP is *more* universal, and therefore if it's a choice of supporting two technologies or just one, SIP has more bang for the buck. Almost every gadget or gizmo supports SIP. Few support IAX2. To support IAX2 for the relatively small number of people who know what it is and who are running Asterisk or IAX2-capable gear may be more trouble than it is worth. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocati... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20100512/b3ba507b/attachment.htm