[Asterisk-Users] Re: Intel Modem vs Digium Cards

[Wolf N. Paul]

Hello,

this is not really much of an issue any more in Europe, the old
state-owned monopoly phone companies have had to loosen up in the face of
private competition and de-regulation (or rather, fairly liberal re-regulation).
I something I hook up causes an actual technical malfunction in the
switch, the telco will turn my line on and might charge me for any actual
damage, but otherwise I am free to use whatever hardware I want.

But your descriptions of the situation in Japan (i.e. a week ago or so on
the way NTT sells/leases pbxs) is very much the way it was here as little
as 8-10 years ago. And it is not that long ago that things were that way
in the US, but we tend to forget that rather quickly (if we ever were
aware of it).

Ten years ago if you had a PBX connected to PSTN you had to have a support
contract with a licensed vendor ... four years ago the telco sold us
an Alcatel PBX and couldn't care less that we didn't want to pay for
a support contract. But of course, since PBXs were not designed to be
customer-maintained, there is virtually no documentation available.

But things are changing.

Regards,

Wolf

Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists <benjk.on.asterisk.ml at gmail.com> writes:

> From: Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists
> 	<benjk.on.asterisk.ml at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Intel Modem vs Digium Cards
> To: Brian West <brian at bkw.org>
> Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> 	<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
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> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:28:46 -0500, Brian West <brian at bkw.org> wrote:
> 
>>>(Benjamin) Having said that, you have a good case in favour of the Intel modems
>>>if you are in a country where the X100P doesn't have type approval but
>>>you can find an Intel modem (with the right chipset) that does. In
>>>such a case, using the Intel modem might be the only legal way to
>>>connect your Asterisk box to an analog PSTN line.
>>
>> (Brian West) Not really the X101P is really just a modem that already has the approvals.
>>They stick a heatsink of the md3200 chip and call it an x101p.
> 
> 
> (Benjamin) You are mistaken. The approval is given for a certain production run
> of a certain design, not for the chipset nor for any similarly
> designed modem. It's got to be the exact same make.
> 
> Here in Japan for example, there used to be a Taiwan made modem based
> on the Intel/Ambient chipset which has type approval while Digium's
> X100P does not. The manufacturer of this modem released an updated
> model which is not imported to Japan anymore and that updated model
> does not have type approval even though it is just a slightly
> different version of its approved predecessor.