[Asterisk-Dev] channel driver sample - Coding/Transcoding/Conferences

[Paul Cadach]

Hi,

Steve Underwood wrote:
> The *appearance* of DSPs being expensive is an artifact of the way the
> industry runs. DSP cards are priced at an extreme multiple of their
> actual cost, leading to a vicious circle - DSP cards are expensive so
> they have a small market. Why are they expensive? because they have a
> small market. E1 cards were like that too, until recently. Apply the
> Digium pricing strategy to a DSP card and it would not look too bad. Add
> an H.100 port to Digium's E1/T1 cards and the DSP card and maybe you are
> starting to build something nice. Sure, it starts to look a little like
> a Dialogic card. That isn't all bad, though, if its a reasonably priced
> open platform, instead of a Dialogic high priced straight-jacket.

I think combined solution (i.e. DSP boards which are possible to process digitized signals from H.100 bus and from host
bus) is better, because those boards will have much wider market place, not only digital/PC telephony (examples of
different usage - spectrum analyzis of high-speed signals, high-end digital oscilloscopes, etc.).


WBR,
Paul.