RE: EXPERIENCE ON USING GGNUGK TO LINK CISCO GATEWAYS

"Frank Fischer" <frank.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:33:03 +0200

Hi 
Goksie

i fully agree with 
Teodor.
If you do a good job setting up your gatekeeper, you 
will not have to expect any problems at all unless you are not trying to use 
cisco proprietary features (which you should never do 
IMHO).
Since i would expect a cisco expert to have an own 
email address, i would recommend that he will join our discussion and tell us in 
detail, where he expects problems and where the degrade in voice quality araises 
especically in non-proxy mode. Maybe he has not a clear picture of how such 
a setup will look like. Since i.e. if he's thinking that a kind of codec 
transformation would have to be done in this setup (which is not the case), he 
might be right. 

Otherwise - just go ahead deploying 
gnugk.
Frank

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  maruna
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:10 PM
To: 
  openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: 
   EXPERIENCE ON USING GGNUGK TO LINK CISCO 
  GATEWAYS

  Frank,

  Thank you for this 
  reply,

  I have a Redhat Linux 
  ES3 with postgresql 7.3.8, FreeRadius 1.0.5 (updated from cvs) and with gnugk 
  2.2.3…. and I run corrected my startup script in the init.d directory to run 
  gnugk –rr (routed mode). 

  However, before 
  testing the setup at all, the guy disagreed. And the call is just only sixty 
  max simultaneous calls.

  Any further technical 
  clues that I can use to convince the guy will be 
  appreciated.

  Thank 
  you

  Goksie

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  On Behalf Of Frank 
  Fischer
Sent: Friday, October 
  28, 2005 10:49 AM
To: 
  openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  
  EXPERIENCE ON USING GGNUGK TO LINK CISCO 
  GATEWAYS

  Hi 

  the Cisco guy is 
  absolutely right - working with cisco gateways strongly degrates voice 
  quality *g*
  In fact, it depends 
  on what setup you choose and how much traffic you have to handle. So, yes, 
  when you have a misconcepted setup, voice quality might degrade, but that's 
  not a problem of the gatekeeper then. 
  For your needs i 
  would use a gatekeeper in routed signaling mode and a storage backend for 
  accouting. A setup like this should be able to handle a large volume of 
  calls.

  - 
  Frank

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    maruna
Sent: 
    Friday, October 28, 2005 11:29 AM
To: openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
    openh323gk-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  EXPERIENCE 
    ON USING GGNUGK TO LINK CISCO GATEWAYS
    Can someone share his experience 
    with me?

    I have 3 Cisco (5300) gateways 
    talking to each other now. However, I raised the idea of using gatekeeper to 
    link them so that we can have a perfect billing of the gateways but I was 
    told that this arrangement will degrade the voice quality by a guy who 
    claims to be Cisco expert.

    I need people to comment on 
    this. All of them will be on public ip 
    (routable).

    Thank 
    you