Coming from the [evil] Dialogic world (where even the drivers cost money) the prices Digium is charging seem very reasonable. New single-span Dialogic T1 interfaces cost at least three times ($1225 USD was the best price I could find on the D/240PCI-T1) what the single span Digium card costs. THEN ADD THE PRICE OF THE DRIVERS. THEN ADD THE PRICE OF REALLY BAD TECHNICAL SUPPORT. THEN ADD THE PRICE OF PROPRIETARY APPLICATION SOFTWARE. It's not pretty. (However, it has fed me and my family pretty well-...)
The Quad-span card is even more of a bargain. The Intel boys claim that they have a serious advantage because they do voice, tone (and sometimes fax) encoding/decoding on the board, thus saving the core CPU. Big deal. Add another CPU. It don't cost much. Certainly not as much as the Dialogic quad-span DM3 card with the requisite DSPs attached. What I would love to see from Digium (after the new Wildcard TDM400P with FXO support is released) would be a higher density analogue platform. Sure you can keep packing cards in, if you have a high-end server with a passive back plane. But wouldn't it be nice to be able to do a 8-FXO x 4-FXS on a single card! Kind of like the Daytona cards that Pika offers. I know that channel banks can do much the same thing, but that adds one more point of complexity and would most likely cost more ($750+ USD for the bank + $500 for T100P = $1250 USD) than a good integrated high density card. Just my .02. Side question: how long will it be before telcos start offering commercial SIP or MGCP or other native VoIP services (over DSL/cable copper, fiber, wireless, etc.) and legacy stuff like voice T1 and POTS go away? Cheers Steven _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users