X100P Clones, for the ast time (was Re: [Asterisk-biz] Sipura replacement)

[Paul]

This should be interesting. I have 6 brand new cards with the 
Ambient(now Intel) MD3200 chip. I haven't had a chance to test yet. My 
cost with shipping was under $9 each. I figured they might be handy for 
some basic testing and experimentation at the very least. I know at 
least 3 people that need replacement winmodems so they might make 
excellent groundhog day gifts.

I won't be surprised at all if they don't work. I did some card designs 
in the past. In purely digital cards there is less that can go wrong. 
But when you are interfacing the chipset to something analog like a 
phone line you have to do it the right way. The sample circuit 
schematics provided by Intel and others are mostly intended to help 
engineers get started and evaluate the chipset. I have ATI video cards 
that work fine and I have clones that use the same ATI chipset and they 
don't work well at all. Interesting....


Benjamin J. Bawkon wrote:

>The X100P Was a Motorola Chipset.
>The X101P (Which is what Digium sold before switching completely to the TDM Card) is an Ambient/Intel (MD3200) Chipset.
>
>I will not debate weather 'clones' are equals or not, but just thought it best to keep the facts straight.
>
>Best Regards,
>Ben Bawkon
>
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>--------- Original Message ---------
>From: Jeremy McNamara
>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>Subject: X100P Clones,for the ast time (was Re: [Asterisk-biz] Sipura replacement)
>Sent: 1/28/2005 5:13:03 PM
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>Matt Schulte wrote:
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>>Inferior? They're just modems.. :)
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>We do not need to rehash this same discussion again and again, so I will 
>state this one last time.  
>
>Mark selected a very specific chipset from Motorola because of very 
>specific technical details.  The chipsets that are out there now are 
>unfortunately driver compatible, but do not contain the same technical 
>abilities as the original Motorola chipset, hence they are inferior.  
>Most X100P clones are subject to horrid echo problems, some lack support 
>for on-hook audio (Caller*id), and a few are half-duplex.
>
>Buyer Beware. 
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>
>Jeremy McNamara
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