[Asterisk-Users] New G.729 codec and VLANS

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Brent Franks wrote:

> The same thing that would happen if the NIC died.  IMHO it's a good thing
> to tie to the NIC, because the chances of the MOBO dieing is not that
> extreme.  If it does die, than just call digium and they'll re-license it.
> Now it would be nice if when you install the codec, there was a 3 or 4 day
> period where the license wasn't needed.  After the 4 days is up, then it
> requires a lic. key.  This would be useful in the event that your * switch
> dies on a friday evening.

Well, personally I won't have to worry about that, because my systems 
will be completely redundant (even redundant G.729 licenses). The 
hardware and licenses are really not that expensive (a 3GHz P4 server 
with a T-1 card and 23 G.729 licenses is well under $2000).