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

[Cory Andrews]

I'll be reading this in Om Malik's blog tomorrow morning.

Cory J Andrews
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VOIPSupply.com
454 Sonwil Drive
Buffalo, NY 14225
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C F" <shmaltz at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SPA-3000 - the party's over :-(


Cory, please hold off, it's still  not Aprils first :)

On 1/23/06, Cory Andrews <Cory at voipsupply.com> wrote:
> 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
> ++++++++++++
> VOIPSupply.com
> 454 Sonwil Drive
> Buffalo, NY 14225
> ++++++++++++++
> voice - 716.630.1555 X22
> email - Cory at VOIPSupply.com
> AIM - B2CORY
> ----- 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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