On 07/14/2010 02:06 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
I love the idea of enabling intelligent endpoints to determine their compatible media formats automatically IF that is what I signed up for.
One argument that's possible to make is that standardisation and commoditisation of all the relevant features has to some extent already--and will in the future further--reduce the need for this concern. In other words, it's more and more common to find CPE and network elements that support any conceivable ITU-T codec, any reasonable ptime, all forms of DTMF relay, etc. Obviously, we're not there yet. But I would wager that those capabilities are going to converge faster than it would take for any of the big operators to overhaul their networks with outboard transcoding gear or additional feature cards in every POP and so on. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 1170 Peachtree Street 12th Floor, Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/