[Asterisk-Users] SPA-3000 - the party's over :-(

[Cory Andrews]

Anyone have a conspiracy theory or two to roll into this thread?  Cisco is 
actually coming out with a new line of gateways that only support IAX, and 
will be porting their entire Callmanager platform to IAX.  The best thing 
about these gateways is that they will actually be running an embedded 
version of Microsoft Windows 98 SE (Second Edition).

Cory J Andrews
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Adamson" <radamson at routers.com>
To: "Asterisk-users-list" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 6:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SPA-3000 - the party's over :-(


>
>> > > I can't speculate as to why their sales of Linksys/Sipura products 
>> > > have
>> > > been restricted, but as a Linksys VAD I can say we are not under any
>> > > such restriction at present.
>> >
>> > its pretty obvious, linksys/sipura are shifting to selling primarily to
>> > service providers who would provide service-locked ATAs to end users.
>> >
>> > sipura telegraphed their intent a long while back by withholding
>> > auto-provisioning documentation from anyone except service providers, 
>> > and
>> > now they have completed the move by no longer allowing sales to end 
>> > users
>> > at all.
>
> That seems to be right in line with Chamber's objective to be a major
> player in the home market. He's certainly not going approach that 
> objective
> by selling one/two devices at a time, so it makes sense he'd change the
> sales/marketing approach to focus/lock-in higher volume 
> customers/resellers
> regardless of what the rest of us think.
>
> That certainly isn't the last shoe to drop in the voip market; wait till
> the next level(s) of announcements from Cisco.
>
> If I were going to bet a couple bucks on this, I'd suggest the spa3000 
> will
> disappear alltogether, and a replacement in the form of a linksys box with
> a faster processor is not far behind.
>
>
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