[asterisk-biz] g729 licensing

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

Why not? I would like to share it, and if I have a chance to help 
someone, and if someone can help me.

The price for one l G.729 channel  license at Wipro is $1.50. I paid to 
Digium - $10 per license.
If I can find it cheaper and have 2-3 times more licenses I have now for 
the same money - I'll go for it.



All the Best!
Sergey.

trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:48 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
>   
>> Well I am looking at purchasing 672 licenses.  Digium gives a little
>> price break over 500 licenses, they only charge $8/each.  Somehow I
>> would like to see how your model could possibly help my situation rather
>> than helping everyone else's.
>>  
>>     
>
> Well there are two options, one is you get your own server, and if you
> exhaust your licenses you get no slack.  Due to the way that codecs are
> done in asterisk there is no way to tell if a license is avialable until
> the codec is chosen, and then without a codec being familiar with all
> channel types no way for it to say 'eeps go try another'.  Idealy during
> the SDP in sip or whatever signalling protocol is used the check would
> be performed and codecs that arent really available not offered, but
> this hook doesnt (currently) exist and if it did would require all
> codecs upgraded to support it.
>
> So in short if you run your own server you would not be able to get
> extra licenses if you run out and the call would end up with 'dead
> air'.  
>
> Only in the community model can you borrow licenses from someone else
> and thus get temporary extra licenses.  We capped it at 10% to avoid
> people ordering 1 license and using 1000 all the time.  This way we can
> more effectively manage the licenses without running out ourselves and
> having to buy more from sippro.com.  We added the auto purchase option
> on the community based model for people that really want to ensure that
> calls dont fail should they exceed that 10% soft quota buffer.
>
> So you dont have to help others out if you dont want to.  Its all about
> choice and freedom, you dont even have to choose our implementation, you
> have that much choice with us :)
>
>
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