[Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

[Dana Olson]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:37:19 -0600, Rich Adamson <radamson at routers.com> wrote:
> > > > 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.


Alright, that helps clarify it a bit, but then again, I have been
running Asterisk at home with a TDM card for a couple months and
haven't had to restart it for a long time. Is it a requirement or just
simply a recomendation?