[asterisk-biz] Digium vs. Sangoma Transcoding card

[Bryant Zimmerman]

Dovid

The Digium card can take any supported codec in Asterisk and change it to G729 or G723 depending on how you have the card set up. It will take the load of the CPU for this translation.

The Sangoma Card will currently do it for.
 codec support     . G.711 . GSM-FR
. G.722 . GMS-EFR
. G.722.1 . AMR
. G.723.1 . AMR-WB (G.722.2)
. G.726 . L8 (Linear 8K)
. G.729AB . L16 (Linear 16K)
. iLBC 

   This is a big win if you are using a diverse codec pool. They also have support for 30 to 480 translations per card (Depends on card purchased).  This makes Digium the jack-knife of codec translations and Sangoma the SwishArmy knife. Digium is top notch at what it offers. Sangoma has taken it one step further they want to have the most varsital encoder card. They support both Asterisk and FreeSwitch. They are two different products. The Digium is simple and great with-in it's design confines. The Sangoma is broader and more robust but may take a little more work on initial setup. Their support is top notch and they are committed to your success with their cards. They make money when you as a happy customer tell others. Why do you think I am telling you about the product. I can sell either Digium cards or Sangoma cards. I don't care which my customer buys. I make the same margin either way. I want my customer to get the right card for their requirements. For me it is fast becoming the Sangoma as our network grows.

Here is a link to their spec Flyer. It answers most of the questions. It really comes down to what do you want. Either card will do the job for g729 or g711.  The Sangoma goes beyond that as well.

http://www.sangoma.com/assets/docs/datasheets/en/d100.pdf

Regards
Bryant

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 From: "Dovid Bender" <asterisk at dovid.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:21 PM
To: asterisk-biz
@lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Digium vs. Sangoma Transcoding card

Bryant,

The main reason for getting the card is to take a load off of the CPU. The 
less that is on the CPU the more the calls the machine can handle. What more 
can the Sangoma do than the Digium ? Does the Digium just do G729 to G711u/a 
and other basic codecs ?

Regards,

Dovid

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> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:12:59 -0400
> From: "Bryant Zimmerman" <BryantZ at zktech.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Digium vs. Sangoma Transcoding card
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
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> Dovid
>
> Sangoma is a multi codec card. It will accelerate more the just g729. They
> can reduce the CPU load if you are transcoding between g722 and others.
> Really cool card. It is a more complete transcoding card. You can also get
> versions that far exceed the 120 count of the Digium card. I love my 
> Digium
> g729 cards but I will move all my new systems to the Sangoma. They are 
> also
> talking about video codecs in an upcoming rev but not sure when or what
> kind of cost to activate. We were so impressed with the spec that we 
> became
> a dealer so we can included them in systems we sell to our customers.
>
> Bryant
>
> ----------------------------------------
> From: asterisk at dovid.net
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:27 AM
> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [asterisk-biz] Digium vs. Sangoma Transcoding card
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have experience with Digium vs. Sangoma transcoding cards
> ? From experience Sangoma has been a lot harder to integrate with
> Asterisk. Wondering what the plus side may be to using Sangoma over
> Digium.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dovid
>
> -- 

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