[Serusers] difference between SER and ASTERISK

[Director General: NEFACOMP]

Thank you.

Emery
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dovid" <temp-1060626446 at xchangetele.com>
To: "serusers" <serusers at lists.iptel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 17:12
Subject: RE: [Serusers] difference between SER and ASTERISK


> SER does signaling. It does not pass RTP (voice). You register with SER
and
> you ask SER if someone else is registered so as to get their IP address
and
> communicate with them directly.
>
> Asterisk is an end user (a UA). It can act as a gateway by being a SIP
> endpoint and PSTN starting point. The RTP stream would actually go through
> it. I do not know if it does SIP registration/lookup as an add-on to the
PBX
> functionality. Asterisk provides IVR.
>
> Dovid
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: serusers-bounces at iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org]On
> Behalf Of Jan Janak
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:42 AM
> To: Director General: NEFACOMP
> Cc: serusers
> Subject: Re: [Serusers] difference between SER and ASTERISK
>
>
> Hello,
>
> SER is a SIP proxy, Asterisk is a PBX and back-to-back user
> agent, they are different by the purpose.
>
>   Jan.
>
> On 16-09 12:27, Director General: NEFACOMP wrote:
> > Hi Group,
> >
> > Can someone tell me the real difference between SER and ASTERISK ?
> >
> > Are they like C++ and C, a CAR and a PLANE, ...
> > Are they different by their purpose, or by their nature? Do they serve
the
> > same purpose? ... ...?
> >
> > I am a confused guy on that matter.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
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