[asterisk-users] Sipura SPA-3000 vs Sangoma A200

[Tom]

Stephen,

FWIW  I have not used the SPA-3000 but we just took delivery of an 
A200d yesterday and installed it in our asterisk server.  Had it up 
and running in a couple of hours.   We were previously using a PRI 
with a Lucent TNT gateway that has hardware echo suppression built in.

We are now using 4 pots lines and I cannot tell the difference in 
sound (after we kicked the gain up to +5 on both Tx and Rx).  It just 
works, is rock solid, and is very well engineered.  We had to call 
Sangoma once for a doc problem on the install but they answered the 
phone and quickly fixed the mistake.  We will be using the A200d 
exclusively in small business * servers that use pots.

We had tried several of the 4 port digium cards previously on the 
same pots lines but could never get rid of the echo unless the gain 
was set really low.

IMHO The A200d rocks!  It has totally removed echo as a pots problem.

Tom

At 10:07 AM 8/10/2006, you wrote:
>Dana,
>
>Thank you very much for your very detailed response.  Yuo are the 
>second one to have recommended going with a PCI card.  I think that 
>I will take your advice and do that instead of the SPA-3000.  Even 
>if I need two FXO ports some day, the price of two SPA-3000 cards 
>(and all the extra cables, etc) will almost equal the A20101.
>
>I just have to figure out if I want to spend the extra for the A200D or not!
>
>I haven't really looked at the Digium TMD400p as I heard that before 
>there were a lot of IRQ and FAX problems with those cards.  I also 
>heard better things about the Sangoma A200, although lately on the 
>voip-info.org wiki there has been someone with driver problems.
>
>By the way, I have not seen either of our messages turn up on the 
>asterisk-users at lists.digium.com digest yet.  Is there usually a day 
>or two delay on having the messages appear?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Stephen