[Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

[Rich Adamson]

> > > My understanding is that to an extent when we buy Sangoma
> > > we're putting the dagger to Digium.
> > 
> > If anything "puts the dagger" to Digium it'll be their own inability to
> > engineer reliable hardware.
> > 
> > I appreciate what Digium has done for Asterisk, but reliability expectations
> > for phone equipment are extremely high.  I sympathize with people who need
> > hardware that doesn't need to be restarted once a week just to do its job
> > properly.  If Digium can't deliver on those reliability expectations, and do
> > it soon, people are going to switch to companies that can.  And you know
> > what?  I don't blame them.
> 
> 
> The Digium boards need to be restarted once a week?
> 
> Please clarify this. I was dead set on getting in a Sangoma A104 for a
> production Asterisk box, but then I read this thread and felt that it
> didn't matter so much what I would order... And so I was deciding to
> stick with Digium. And then I read your scary comment.
> 
> I've currently got a Digium board filled with 3 T1s, but it hasn't
> been under heavy use right yet, due to my attention being pulled from
> * and put onto SER+AudioCodes devices for other applications, and I
> haven't had to restart yet. Is this going to change? What's the deal?
> 
> Please clarify your statement for me, as I need reliability as well.

I'll jump in here (but I'm not the original poster). The "once a week"
thing relates to the digium TDM card (fxo and/or fxs modules). I don't
believe the T1 cards are an issue that requires driver reloads.