On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:01:52AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:That seems a rather US view of things. The practice is Asia, and particularly in Taiwan, has generally been to cut prices to the bone on new things, and try to drive market volumes from there. They made ADSL cheap when the volumes were still modest.
That looks a bit like this one:
http://www.planet.com.tw/product/product_intro.php?menu_id=3
rather expensive to me. These things have less DSP and compute to do than an ADSL modem, and should cost no more. That would make a reasonable price about US$50-60. I suspect it won't be long before we
Market volume means a lot to prices... So far, the VoIP market is way behind the DSL market.
I'm not convinced the volumes are that small. I believe Cisco alone has shipped several million lines of VoIP. That would be more than enough to get the Asian makers interested in aggressive cost reduction work. It doesn't need a lot of complex expensive and risky development. It doesn't, for example, require complex custom chips, as the DSL business did. An OMAP chip, for example, has most of what you need, except the ethernet port. Those are some of the biggest volume chips made, so prices are very keen.
Regards, Steve
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