[Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

[Timothy Costello]

Hi;

Just to a a little perspective.  The closest equivalent Dialogic board 
(i.e. connects 4 T1's to a pci bus) is just under $7000 USD per board. 
Now while this isn't comparing apples to apples since the Dialogic 
board has more onboard processing services it does give a reference 
data point.  The Digium board at just under $1500 USD looks quite good 
based on that comparison...

Later;
Tim

On Apr 7, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Craig Guy wrote:

> [rant]
> I wish my local reseller would 'dump' the product, or at least offer it
> cheaper without support.  The digium PRI cards IMHO are way too 
> expensive
> for those of us who are familiar with them and are only interested in
> warranty support.  I will probably soon be buying another 5 of them and
> spending over $A10,000 in the process.  The cards are more expensive 
> than
> the server they're going into (Dell poweredge 750's).  When a GPL'd 
> hardware
> design costs more than an entire proprietary server (including  
> chassis,
> motherboard, dual hard disks and remote access card) then there is 
> something
> very wrong in the market.  I do not possibly see how a quarter length 
> PCI
> card should cost more than an entire rack mount server.  IMHO bring on 
> the
> competition, Asterisk should divorce itself from Digium, the sooner the
> better.  Asterisk is a software product and should stand alone and not 
> be
> subsidised by the hardware.  Marks salary should come from selling 
> trainig
> and Asterisk support services, not hardware.  If Digium gets money from
> selling Digum hardware, where then is the incentive for Asterisk to 
> support
> alternative hardware (BRI for example).  Imagine if Linus was employed 
> by
> Intel, Linux would only be an empty shell of its current self with no
> support for embedded platforms, Motorola CPU's, WRT54G's, etc.
> [/rant]
>
> Craig
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Svensson" <psvasterisk at psv.nu>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:43 PM
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium
>
>
>> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Matteo Brancaleoni wrote:
>>
>>> I hate to say that, but the problem is that Digium doesn't do this.
>>> They allow resellers to do market dumping, by not imposing fixed
>>> list prices to resellers, they also compete with they're own
>>> distributors/resellers by offering the cards online and by offering
>>> services directly to end users.
>>> In this way they're destroying they're own reseller network
>>> and there's no commercial gain into supporting the end user
>>> (as resellers).
>>
>> Resellers are almost universally a useless money-sink. Most add no 
>> value
>> at all, they are simply another logistics point. Distributors, on the
>> other hand, are usually very knowlegable and are able to support their
>> customers (the resellers) quite well.
>>
>> My advice: always *always* buy from as early in the channel as 
>> possible.
>> Prices are better and the support is _way_ better.
>>
>> Of course, if you are not familiar with the problem space for which 
>> you
>> are purchasing a solution then resellers can add a lot of value.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
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