[asterisk-users] Sipura 3000 replacement ---> SPA3102 how reliable is it?

[Hans Witvliet]

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 18:37 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:
> SIP wrote:
> > Joseph wrote:
> >> I need another Sipura 3K and the replacement I think is Linksys SPA3102.
> >> Any input on how reliable is it?
> >>
> >>   
> > We have a few dozen subscribers using them at any given point in time. I 
> > and my wife even use them at our respective homes.  Rock solid stable. 
> > No issues whatsoever.
> 
> The only reservation I've got with the 3000/3102 units is that I've had 
> 3 destroyed by lightening recently. But I'm told it's because I'm on the 
> end of 3kms of cable across open countryside.  The others I've installed 
> in non rural installations work faultlessly.
> 

There's not much that can stand lightning (not just a direct hit), so
you cant't blame the sipura box for that.
Even when it was build, using a Faraday-cage with double insulation with
optocouplers, the amount of energy picked up by a 3 km line is beyond
commercial engineerd products.