On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 08:51 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > > Steve Totaro wrote: > > > > > I do not think Digium makes much off the sales of a G729 license and > > > it probably costs them after supporting it. I think they do it to > > > provide a much needed component to Asterisk. I do not really see > > > other 3rd party applications providing a "Licensed VoIP Standard" that > > > is so widespread in VoIP devices. > > > > Obviously I cannot disclose any numbers, but I can say with all > > certainty that Digium does not lose money selling G.729 codec patent > > indemnification licenses. > > > > generic rates are available online, granted you get volume discounts but > it starts about $1/channel for g.729 and goes down to $0.10/license (or > at least it did last I checked, rumor is that the price is going down). > > http://www.sipro.com is the licensing authority for the g.729 consortium > (they also do g.723.1) and have pricing sheets in pdf form on their > website if anyone is really interested in what the costs are. Of course > you will have to guess what volume digium is doing and what program they > fell into (there are a couple and the price varies with them). > -- > Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel > Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 > http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! > >
Glad to hear it is a good money maker for Digium. I had no idea it was that cheap. Nice profit margin! Thanks, Steve Totaro _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
