
H.323 Video Call Solutions
H.323 solutions are kind of outdated, but still useful for personal videoconferencing. SIP is
basically the replacement to H.323, but there are still uses for H.323. One of the main rea-
sons H.323 is no longer well liked is because it is not firewall friendly for the corporate
environment, and it requires a lot of special configuration for the enterprise environment. As
we discussed in Chapter 5, there are several hardware-based H.323 solutions that can be
used for video calls for the home user. Many of the video telephone devices can have their
BIOS flashed to support SIP or H.323, but rarely both.This allows us to use hardw ...