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Old 05-29-2007, 10:45 PM
alexd
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Default Re: Who decides which codec to use?

John Miller wrote:

> Isn't G.711 (a in Europe, and µ in America) the international standard for
> PSTN calls? I just thought so because ISDN is also using this codec, and
> I suppose the PSTN operators are avoiding extra conversions on the way.
>
> So I thought if my ATA would negociate G.711a to my SIP provider, that
> there would be less conversions needed?


Potentially - but how do you know how your SIP provider gets your call
to/from the PSTN? They may be using ISDN, but then again they may have an
IP trunk instead.

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