[Server-devel] VoIP

[Tim Moody]

What are the bandwidth requirements for these various voip strategies, sip, 
iax2?

Tim

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> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:17:31 -0700
> From: "Sameer Verma" <sverma at sfsu.edu>
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> To: "Michael Stone" <michael at laptop.org>
> Cc: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>, server-devel at lists.laptop.org
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> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:11:56PM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
>>>VoIP would be more effective but would require much more effort.
>>
>> Fedora recently set up its own VOIP system, so there may be experts
>> lurking nearby who could be tempted into assisting you.
>>
>> Michael
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> I'm no VoIP expert, but I played with it for a bit on different
> distros. Trixbox (http://www.trixbox.org/) is CentOS based and is very
> featureful. On the other hand, Astlinux (http://www.astlinux.org/) is
> very interesting in that it has a very small footprint. Astlinux runs
> off a CF card (64MB if I remember correctly). You can also run it off
> a bootable CD. All the config is browser-based, and all the config
> files live on a separate USB key (or any other partition).
>
> I suspect we will need something in between.
>
> Also along the lines of VoIP clients, I've been looking at IAX2
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Asterisk_eXchange) clients instead
> of SIP. iaxcomm (http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/) is a
> simple IAX2 client. On Ubuntu its current, but I haven't found any
> active RPMs. IAX routes quite nicely as compared to SIP. I'd be
> interested in seeing a sugarized iaxcomm on the XO.
>
> Sameer
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