[Asterisk-Dev] G729 in non-realtime mode - way forwardforAsterisk?

[Kevin Walsh]

Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists [benjk.on.asterisk.ml at gmail.com] wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:30:58 +0100, Kevin Walsh <kevin at cursor.biz> wrote:
> > (15 + 63) / 50 = 1.56.  That's a $1.56 purchase price per channel and
> > a $10 resale price (641% markup - nice).  Sell all 50,000 channels with
> > some sort of automated licensing system and you'll rake in a $422,000
> > profit without having to lift a finger.  The break-even point is only
> > 7,800 channels.
> >
> Kevin, you are counting the eggs before you have caught the chicken.
> It is the startup cost that will make it practically impossible for
> any small time project to even consider embarking on the effort. The
> system is designed to categorically lock out any such initiative.
>
Absolutely correct.

Anyone with a spare $78,000 to invest could make an easy $22,000 by
selling 50,000 channels at $2 each.  As tempting as a 28% ROI is, I
would not get involved with any venture that involves raising money for
the G.729 monopolists.

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