[Asterisk-Users] Generic modem question

[Rich Adamson]

> > Yes, you can buy a clone.  Yes, it may work currently (although I wouldn't
> want to guess for how long).  Also, the ?>?>>   
> > actual cards that the X100Ps are based on have stopped being produced by
> Intel, so you're out of luck as far as a 
> > replacement goes in 6 months time.
> 
> I though that the X100P were a tigerjet chip?  I'm not looking at one right
> now but I've seen the Tigerjet branding on the real X100Ps and also on the
> TDM400 board too.  Actually I have a couple of branded tigerjet "telephone
> gateway" (or something) cards that are identical [in appearance] to X100Ps
> (although I remember that in zaptel they were identified as generic) - I'm
> not using them now but they seemed to work fine. 
> 
> > Don't forget that the impedance on the X100P (or clone) is 600Ohms so you
> won't be able to use it without echo outside 
> > of the United States.
> 
> Thats very interesting - I've certinly had echo annoyances (not major
> problems - echo canel got rid of it after a second or so) and I put it down
> to bad quality telephone lines (probably true too).

I believe one can characterize the TigerJet name as the pci controller
chip, but the card has several other chips as well. My x100p card has
a heatsink glued on top of one of the chips so I can't see the actual
part number; I believe its the Tigerjet chip however.