[Asterisk-Users] Dialogic channel pricing

[mattf]

Speaking as former Dialogic/Bayonne user who was frustrated for months with
Dialogic's complexity and months of initial testing with GlobalCall only to
use their many-years-old and very complex base Dialogic drivers(and
eventually scrapping it all for Digium/Asterisk and being up one week
later), I can tell you that Digium/Asterisk is definately the way to go. 

It is 1000 times easier to configure and install and has more functionality
than Dialogic offers by itself(one example is conferencing which takes an
extra board for Dialogic to accomplish). Also, with today's hardware
resources, having a mostly motherboard-based telecom solution(digium) makes
sense and is much cheaper than Dialogic's
all-call-processing-done-on-extra-boards based solutions.

So sell your expensive Dialogic boards on ebay and use the money to buy a
new Digium board.

Note: If you are talking about using analog 24 port cards, then there is no
good open-source solution.(aside from T1 port direct to channel bank)

And Digium didn't pay me to post this:)

MATT FLORELL---



-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:critch at basesys.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:22 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialogic channel pricing


You disappoint me. You appear to be a somewhat knowledgeable person
since you use pine, but then you don't figure out how to start a new
thread. 

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:54, mawali at news.icns.com wrote:
> Hi
> As the manual states that Dialogic channel is provided as an add on per 
> price.
> 
> What does it cost and how can one buy it. Hasn't anyone been able to make 
> a 3rd party dialogic channel using GlobalCall.

had you did a small amount of research at the archives or even looked at
recent posts you would have read that the problem is that the dialogic
drivers are not GPL compatible. This means Digium must make a version of
asterisk available in a non GPL license for the driver to be
incorporated. Much the same way that when Sun released StarOffice to the
OOo group they had to strip out the parts that had to be licensed in a
proprietary way. Or the way that when Netscape released the netscape 5.x
code to the mozilla group they had to strip it of anything proprietary. 

You luck out that Mark doesn't allow any code into the main tree that
isn't possible for Digium to release in a license other than GPL. But
for this price, and the effort Digium made to produce the driver, you
must pay a fee. If you use google to search the archive you will find it
to be something like $15 per DS0. 

> I do have a couple of dialogic boards that I would like to use, I dont 
> want my old investment to be useless.

This is why ebay is around. Someone will buy them.

-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>

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