[Freeswitch-users] what happened to iax

[Steve Underwood]

  Hi,

SIP phones have been made easy for their target market to use, and end 
users are not their target market. Service providers are the target 
market, and SIP phones are mostly made easy for those people to 
provision and control in volume. Unless a strong end user market for SIP 
phones develops, this won't change.

Most IAX phones sit outside this, as they are mostly made by people who 
simply can't get into the high volume service provider business, where 
they want to be. Usually they are second division phones, as well as 
second division suppliers. The good hardware runs SIP.

Steve


On 09/08/2010 05:15 AM, Derek Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
>  cause most sip phones I have tried suck.
>
> Typically, the UI is broken, and hard to follow.
>
> When a user gets an iax phone, all they have to do is set the locn of the
> remote server, and "it just works".
>
> Remember, your average user does not know what a file is, or how to 
> use one.
>
> "if you know how to set it up properly".
> ok - this statement means that SIP is good for 0.1% of the population..
>
> Derek.
>
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Brian West wrote:
>
>> Why is everyone dead set on using IAX?  you know SIP works fine and 
>> can traverse NAT if you know how to set it up properly.
>> /b
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Steven Ayre wrote:
>>
>>       Yuck.
>>
>>       On 7 September 2010 02:56, Jeffrey Leung 
>> <curriegrad2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>             If you do really want to use IAX, there is a solution: 
>> Use Asterisk as
>>             an IAX protocol translator and have it to forward all the 
>> calls via
>>             SIP to Freeswitch.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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