Leo Ann Boon wrote:
Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Most of the Cisco phones sold "cheap" are UNLICENSED ("global spare")
thus you would not be able to purchase (or at least aren't supposed
to) the smartnet contracts, you need to buy the license ($100+) and
the contract ($10 or so)
I'm always surprised by by the number of people who don't read the
fine print :). Even if you have a new licensed unit, it's only
licensed to run Skinny out of the box. SIP requires additional licensing.
Back to the G.729A licensing, I just received a new 'low-volume' quote
from Sipro. For 1,000 channels - it's <US$6 per channel (<US$4 for
5,000) just for the right to use G.729A. You'll still have to fork out
money to separately licensed a working codec - unless you're happy
with the suboptimal ITU implementation or Intel's IPP sample. One
vendor we spoke to asked for US$2,000/year to license their G.729A
implementation on top of the Sipro licensing.
That works out to a total of US$8/channel if we use 1,000 channel in a
year. Throw in the cost of license administration (because Sipro will
require audit), the US$10 charged by Digium looks very reasonable.
That is only for Sipro's part. You also need to pay Nokia and NEC (maybe
others). That should be a similar sized bill to the Sipro one.
Steve
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