[Asterisk-Users] Dialogic D/4PCI

[Steve Beaumont]

Tim,

Thanks for the advice, the card was donated by a friend so I guess I better 
let him have it back.

I've been sucessfully dabbling with asterisk for a while now, I saw this 
card as a way of expanding my knowledge for little outlay :-) guess I will 
have to bite the bullet and buy one of the cheaper digium cards like X100P.

Best Regards
Steve B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tim panton" <tpanton at attglobal.net>
To: "Steve Beaumont" <steveb at asbc.demon.co.uk>; "Asterisk Users Mailing 
List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialogic D/4PCI


>
> On 22 Jan 2005, at 17:14, Steve Beaumont wrote:
>
>> Is there ant chance of the Dialogic card model D/4PCI working with 
>> asterisk ?
>
> The advice I was given when I asked a similar question about a dialogic 
> board
> was, roughly : It is possible but it will cost you money for the license 
> and the results
> will be disappointing. If you are serious about asterisk, then get a 
> well -supported card,
> possibly funded by selling the dialogic on eBay.
>
> I took the advice (but didn't sell the card) and have not regretted it.
> The issue is partly about the philosophy of the card. Asterisk does as 
> much as possible
> on the main CPU and as little as possible on the card. Dialogic 
> (especially older cards)
> take the opposite view, producing a incompatibility that can be overcome, 
> but only
> by ignoring or working around most of the features of the Dialogic card.
>
> If you just want to dabble, build an IP only system, and use soft-phones.
>
> Tim.
> http://www.westhawk.co.uk
>
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