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What's the difference between a SIP and H.323 phone?
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Travis - Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Are Usually Interrupted by Someone Else Doing It; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;
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This is my personal view, but that article was a bit self important (the only difinitive article!). Always take things like that with a pinch of salt.
Again this is my point of view.
That article makes out pretty much like SIP is crap and H323 is God.
Well from my experience, I've found SIP to be far more flexible than h323. Granted I haven't touched a h323 system for a couple of years, so it may be better now, but what I suffered really put me off.
I found it a pig to get through firewalls and using dhcp was a pain in the backside. SIP gave me a huge amount of flexabilty. I found h323 to be better when connecting fixed points e.g server to server, but I don't even bother with that now.
I have managed to get every SIP device to work with any other with no issues.
I also like to point out one thing, volume. Take a peek at how many SIP devices are out there.
h323 has it's uses especially server to server, but me, I prefer SIP any day.
I'm sure people will disagree here and I'm sure they can raise some good points, but as I said, this is my personal opinion.
Stu..
Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004
Again this is my point of view.
That article makes out pretty much like SIP is crap and H323 is God.
Well from my experience, I've found SIP to be far more flexible than h323. Granted I haven't touched a h323 system for a couple of years, so it may be better now, but what I suffered really put me off.
I found it a pig to get through firewalls and using dhcp was a pain in the backside. SIP gave me a huge amount of flexabilty. I found h323 to be better when connecting fixed points e.g server to server, but I don't even bother with that now.
I have managed to get every SIP device to work with any other with no issues.
I also like to point out one thing, volume. Take a peek at how many SIP devices are out there.
h323 has it's uses especially server to server, but me, I prefer SIP any day.
I'm sure people will disagree here and I'm sure they can raise some good points, but as I said, this is my personal opinion.
Stu..
Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004
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Yeah.. sorry.. I didn't read the article.. I just grabbed one from google You should read everything you can find but I do agree SIP is the easier of the two and I haven't had any compatibility issues that weren't worked out either.
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Travis - Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Are Usually Interrupted by Someone Else Doing It; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;
You should read everything you can find but I do agree SIP is the easier of the two and I haven't had any compatibility issues that weren't worked out either.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Travis - Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Are Usually Interrupted by Someone Else Doing It; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;
H.323 takes the old fashioned "telco" way of doing things.
SIP takes the new fashioned "Web" way of doing things.
Both are more than adequate.
Odds are SIP will win.
Why, because H.323 is a weird obscure thing that very few people understand. Sort of like SS7 or ISND signaling.
SIP on the other hand is simple, easy to understand, and more important clicks with anyone who is used to HTML and IP.
SIP takes the new fashioned "Web" way of doing things.
Both are more than adequate.
Odds are SIP will win.
Why, because H.323 is a weird obscure thing that very few people understand. Sort of like SS7 or ISND signaling.
SIP on the other hand is simple, easy to understand, and more important clicks with anyone who is used to HTML and IP.
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