[Asterisk-Users] IAXy - anyone using them yet?

[niles at atheos.net]

you might be better served using a TMD400P, and saving
yourself $100 at the same time.
Niles

On Oct 5, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Tim Connolly wrote:

> 	Is it fair to say the IAXy could be used to provide POTS lines for a
> small, say 4 line PBX? The * would sit elsewhere providing the 
> services for
> the remote office (or home) pbx? Obviously, 4 units would be needed...
>
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> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:27:47 -0400, mattf <mattf at vicimarketing.com> 
> wrote:
>> This is a really great ATA adapter, but it isn't exactly feature-rich 
>> at
>> this point in time.
>
> The whole point of the IAXy is simplicity.
>
>
>> Here's my IAXy features wishlist:
>> - basic network programming from phone interface(like Sipura and Cisco
> ATAs)
>>    - at the very least a little debug message that will speak you the 
>> IP
>> address
>> - basic web interface
>> - more codecs, like GSM
>> - some tiny holes drilled in the case somewhere for more ventilation
>> - version with second RJ45 for passthru ethernet and possibly even
> built-in
>> NAT(OK I know this is far off, but this is a "Wish-List")
>
> I don't think you will see any of that (other than perhaps the holes
> for ventilation) in any future version of the IAXy. Any of those
> features would require a totally different new product.
>
> When Mark Spencer made some comparison between IAX and SIP, he used
> the IAXy as an example to illustrate how little resources it requires
> to implement IAX. I can't quote him precisely but his description of
> the IAXy's resource footprint seemed like the description of a 1970s
> digital watch, I kid you not. Basically, the IAXy doesn't have any
> "brains" whatsoever. The whole thing runs in 4K of RAM on discrete
> radio shack circuitry and that's the whole point of it. I remember
> Mark saying "... this is why it will never support any other codecs
> than it does now".
>
> Your wishlist would have to be fulfilled by another product, a big
> brother of the IAXy so to speak.
>
> rgds
> benjk
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