[Freeswitch-users] what happened to iax

[Derek Smithies]

Hi,
  the opal library contains an IAX implementation that did voice calls
to digium.
At one stage, it did call transfer.

along came the iax management, who added this call token thing to the iax 
protocol. The opal code contains call token handling.

Remaining?
  to write an iax registrar, and find a way to ensure that all this can 
talk with freeswitch.

license?
   the opal implementation of iax and h323 and sip is all MPL.

connectivity with freeswitch?
   There is code in freeswitch to talk to opal to do h323 calls.
Since opal uses a normalised approach to voip protocols and consequently 
all protocols look the same to the management software, there is little to 
do to get connectivity with freeswitch.

code quality?
   the opal code for iax is heavily documented, is readable and nice.
   it is heavily multi-threaded, so will cope with huge call volumes.

So what is remaining?
> Maybe the people/companies interested can start a fund raising via
> web, launching a sort of consortium for that...
Exactly - but there is only one way to go that has a chance of working, 
which is to use the opal code.


Derek.

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:

> This thread seems to go into a discussion on pro and cons of IAX in
> particular cases...
>
> As anything, IAX can have users that find it useful.
>
> Problem is, the "open" (as in BSD compatible license) implementation
> of the IAX stack is broken, and to write a new stack is a *really* big
> work, that takes time from professional programmers and testers.
>
> So, at end, problem is: the peoples/companies that would like to use
> IAX with FreeSWITCH (or other software not GPLed) are willing/able to
> raise enough money to fund the development of a working and reliable
> IAX stack?
>
> Maybe the people/companies interested can start a fund raising via
> web, launching a sort of consortium for that...
>
> -giovanni
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Derek Smithies <derek at indranet.co.nz> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Derek Smithies Ph.D.
>> IndraNet Technologies Ltd.
>> ph +64 3 365 6485
>> Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
>>
>> "How did you make it work??"
>>      "Oh, the usual, get everything right".
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Derek Smithies Ph.D.
IndraNet Technologies Ltd.
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Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/

"How did you make it work??"
       "Oh, the usual, get everything right".