[Asterisk-Users] Digium cards just for timing - moden cards?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

> 2) I've always though a real DSP based modem card could be
>    re-programmed to a much more interesting use.  Those on-board
>    TI DSP chips are quite powerfull computers.  Easly enough to
>    compute any audio codec or even the front end for speech
>    understanding.  they are flash reprogramable too.

That and without blasting the PC with interrupts...  I wonder if the codec 
conversion costs would be better (not sure how well SSE fares against a 
good DSP)

Regards,
Andrew