asterisk users - Jan 2014 - Asterisk 11 and H.323 trunk using OOH323 - is it stable?

Dear List,

I'm about to build an Asterisk 11.7 based PBX from scratch for our company.
I'm in the middle of the planning phase and it turned out that our VoIP
provider prefers H.323 protocol for handling voice calls (while SIP is also
supported as "plan B").

As I never worked with H.323 channels in Asterisk earlier, I'm not sure if
it's stable enough to be used in production.

Googling about the subject didn't help much, I could only find some old and
probably outdated information which I don't want to rely on.

Can you please confirm if the OOH323 module in Asterisk 11 is stable enough
to use for voice calls? No extra functionality is needed, just to be able
to create a H.323 trunk towards the provider and make and receive a maximum
of 30 simultaneous voice calls through the trunk.

Thanks for your kind response!


Regards,
Gergely Kiss
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On 14-01-16 03:37 PM, Gergely Kiss wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I'm about to build an Asterisk 11.7 based PBX from scratch for our
company.
> I'm in the middle of the planning phase and it turned out that our VoIP
> provider prefers H.323 protocol for handling voice calls (while SIP is also
> supported as "plan B").
>
> As I never worked with H.323 channels in Asterisk earlier, I'm not sure
if
> it's stable enough to be used in production.
>
> Googling about the subject didn't help much, I could only find some old
and
> probably outdated information which I don't want to rely on.
>
> Can you please confirm if the OOH323 module in Asterisk 11 is stable enough
> to use for voice calls? No extra functionality is needed, just to be able
> to create a H.323 trunk towards the provider and make and receive a maximum
> of 30 simultaneous voice calls through the trunk.
>
> Thanks for your kind response!
>
Save yourself time / energy and insist using SIP. If your ITSP cannot 
accommodate your request, thank them and look for another provider.

H323 is Asterisk is basically dead, sure there is a module, sure it 
might compile, but you'll be going down the path of zero help.

-- 
Paul Belanger | PolyBeacon, Inc.
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On 16-01-14 21:37, Gergely Kiss wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I'm about to build an Asterisk 11.7 based PBX from scratch for our
> company. I'm in the middle of the planning phase and it turned out that
> our VoIP provider prefers H.323 protocol for handling voice calls (while
> SIP is also supported as "plan B").
It's SIP everywhere and anyone who requires you, in 2014, to use H.323 
should get a clue. Avoid them or at least demand SIP.
> As I never worked with H.323 channels in Asterisk earlier, I'm not sure
> if it's stable enough to be used in production.
No idea. Maybe someone else with H.323 experience will respond. AFAIK 
it's a dead-end.

Regards,
Patrick