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@iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces@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.
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