[Asterisk-Users] Intel Modem vs Digium Cards

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:28:46 -0500, Brian West <brian at bkw.org> wrote:
> > Having said that, you have a good case in favour of the Intel modems
> > if you are in a country where the X100P doesn't have type approval but
> > you can find an Intel modem (with the right chipset) that does. In
> > such a case, using the Intel modem might be the only legal way to
> > connect your Asterisk box to an analog PSTN line.
> 
> Not really the X101P is really just a modem that already has the approvals.
> They stick a heatsink of the md3200 chip and call it an x101p.

You are mistaken. The approval is given for a certain production run
of a certain design, not for the chipset nor for any similarly
designed modem. It's got to be the exact same make.

Here in Japan for example, there used to be a Taiwan made modem based
on the Intel/Ambient chipset which has type approval while Digium's
X100P does not. The manufacturer of this modem released an updated
model which is not imported to Japan anymore and that updated model
does not have type approval even though it is just a slightly
different version of its approved predecessor.

rgds
benjk

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