[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk-Users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 81

[Martin]

I too had a server room fry and need to replace h/w.
So what specific Dell servers did/do you deploy?
Where is the link w/Digium/s Dell caveats?
I'm using the Digium  TDM400 card w/*

> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:19:13 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Aaron Daniel <amdtech at shsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !
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> *shrugs* Ya win some ya lose some.  We've spent about 10 grand plus on
> Digium cards and have been pretty satisfied with ours :) Faxes have been
> working great for over 6 months and the cards work wonderfully in our Dell
> servers.  They just need more documentation on the different configuration
> options you can pass on load... I think the only problems we've really had
> are configuration related, or bad hardware on our part, oh, and a server
> room fry that took out more than just the Asterisk servers :-P
>
> Aaron
>
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Tony ROBIN wrote:
>
>>
>> I am so fed up with Digium cards. My company first owned a TE410P,
>> I installed it in a Dell server and "enjoyed" its instability (we
>> bought it months before Digium warned about the incompatibility
>> issues). Then we switched to a TE411P for the hardware echo
>> cancellation. Now we want to receive fax (< 20/day) on it and
>> guess what ? Since April 2006 (again a few months after we bought
>> our brand new card), "officially, fax communications is not
>> supported with Digium cards" ( http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+fax ).
>> Of course, I should have guessed that it is far too much to ask
>> to a $2495 card ! Is the "fax" extension in Asterisk just there
>> to push us to the competing products ?
>>
>> We hesitated to buy another Digium card after the problems with
>> TE410P, but I told myself it was nice to support Asterisk by
>> buying some Digium cards. Now Digium make us regret our buys and
>> a disappointed customer is a lost customer forever... Too sad...
> -- 
> Aaron Daniel
> Computer Systems Technician
> Sam Houston State University
> amdtech at shsu.edu
> (936) 294-4198
>
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