<div class="gmail_quote">This is a tough deal ... and something that I do think keeps FS out of the same boat as proprietary solutions like Nextone, etc. In the real world (from a service provider view) you have customers who want to send one thing (i.e. g729 and g723 a lot from international carriers) and your vendors who will only accept a limited set (specifically g729 (maybe) and certainly g711 ulaw). So you have to really restrict what people can send you and in some cases it can be a deal killer. I'm seeing more and more wholesale vendors (especially smaller niche guys) getting away from accepting anything other than g711. </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="gmail_quote">I would be interested in seeing if there would be a way to have the RTP transverse a media processing blade like the ones offered from Audiocodes etc. </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Most have some method to tell the device to set up ports and bridge without being involved in the signaling itself. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="gmail_quote">
There are a couple of major advantages:</div><div class="gmail_quote"> -- removing the transcoding from the host to risc based processors</div><div class="gmail_quote"> -- not worrying about the licensing because it comes with the card and would support all codecs</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">SDR</div>