[Asterisk-Dev] Re: [Asterisk-Users] FYI: G723.1 Licensing Prices

[Nick]

Actually as I read it it's not (that) bad.  30.5k for the initial
license, ~2$ per chan.  Yeah 30k is a fair chunk of change, but it's not
beyond what the asterisk community could afford.  I doubt this IP
company is going to have any intrest in negotiating a deal with digium,
IP companies arn't terribly well known for careing if their product gets
used.  I'd be willing to toss a hundred $ or so towards getting digium a
license to G723.1, now all we need is 299 more folks <Grin>, anyone?
	Nick
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:28:55PM -0500, Brian West wrote:
> I wonder if by chance they could make a deal with digium so that asterisk
> users can buy the 723.1 codec but they wouldn't have to spend the large
> upfront $$ to get going.  Something like this:
> 
> from X number of lic. to X number of lic.  Digium gets 20%/DSPG gets 80%
> of the sale.
> 
> Then once they hit a point it would drop to 40/60 then 60/40 till its paid
> for.  Its only going to benefit DSPG to have their codec in more products
> and provide better flexability in asterisk.  If products don't support
> 723.1(cisco ATA's do) and say cisco sees that nobody is using it then why
> keep including it and they drop support for it in their ATA and other voip
> products thus causing DPSG to loose revenue.
> 
> Just an idea.  In this day any income is better than no-income.
> 
> bkw
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Eric Wieling wrote:
> 
> > Licensing info for the G723.1 codec, direct from the holding company
> > that licenses the codec.
> >
> > http://www.dspg.com/technology/LicensePricing.html
> >
> > As you can see they want a LOT of money.  This is why I doubt there will
> > ever be G.723.1 codec available fro Asterisk.
> >
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