[Asterisk-Users] Is the X100P a WinModem?

[Richard Lyman]

hell i just got a quote today for D240JCT-1T1 for $4500ish

"Steven M. Sokol" wrote:
> 
> Coming from the [evil] Dialogic world (where even the drivers cost
> money) the prices Digium is charging seem very reasonable.  New
> single-span Dialogic T1 interfaces cost at least three times ($1225 USD
> was the best price I could find on the D/240PCI-T1) what the single span
> Digium card costs.  THEN ADD THE PRICE OF THE DRIVERS.  THEN ADD THE
> PRICE OF REALLY BAD  TECHNICAL SUPPORT.  THEN ADD THE PRICE OF
> PROPRIETARY APPLICATION SOFTWARE.  It's not pretty.  (However, it has
> fed me and my family pretty well-...)
> 
> The Quad-span card is even more of a bargain.  The Intel boys claim that
> they have a serious advantage because they do voice, tone (and sometimes
> fax) encoding/decoding on the board, thus saving the core CPU.  Big
> deal.  Add another CPU.  It don't cost much.  Certainly not as much as
> the Dialogic quad-span DM3 card with the requisite DSPs attached.
> 
> What I would love to see from Digium (after the new Wildcard TDM400P
> with FXO support is released) would be a higher density analogue
> platform.  Sure you can keep packing cards in, if you have a high-end
> server with a passive back plane.  But wouldn't it be nice to be able to
> do a 8-FXO x 4-FXS on a single card!  Kind of like the Daytona cards
> that Pika offers.
> 
> I know that channel banks can do much the same thing, but that adds one
> more point of complexity and would most likely cost more ($750+ USD for
> the bank + $500 for T100P = $1250 USD) than a good integrated high
> density card.  Just my .02.
> 
> Side question:  how long will it be before telcos start offering
> commercial SIP or MGCP or other native VoIP services (over DSL/cable
> copper, fiber, wireless, etc.) and legacy stuff like voice T1 and POTS
> go away?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steven
> 
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