Speaking as former Dialogic/Bayonne user who was frustrated for months with Dialogic's complexity and months of initial testing with GlobalCall only to use their many-years-old and very complex base Dialogic drivers(and eventually scrapping it all for Digium/Asterisk and being up one week later), I can tell you that Digium/Asterisk is definately the way to go.
It is 1000 times easier to configure and install and has more functionality than Dialogic offers by itself(one example is conferencing which takes an extra board for Dialogic to accomplish). Also, with today's hardware resources, having a mostly motherboard-based telecom solution(digium) makes sense and is much cheaper than Dialogic's all-call-processing-done-on-extra-boards based solutions. So sell your expensive Dialogic boards on ebay and use the money to buy a new Digium board. Note: If you are talking about using analog 24 port cards, then there is no good open-source solution.(aside from T1 port direct to channel bank) And Digium didn't pay me to post this:) MATT FLORELL--- -----Original Message----- From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialogic channel pricing You disappoint me. You appear to be a somewhat knowledgeable person since you use pine, but then you don't figure out how to start a new thread. On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > As the manual states that Dialogic channel is provided as an add on per > price. > > What does it cost and how can one buy it. Hasn't anyone been able to make > a 3rd party dialogic channel using GlobalCall. had you did a small amount of research at the archives or even looked at recent posts you would have read that the problem is that the dialogic drivers are not GPL compatible. This means Digium must make a version of asterisk available in a non GPL license for the driver to be incorporated. Much the same way that when Sun released StarOffice to the OOo group they had to strip out the parts that had to be licensed in a proprietary way. Or the way that when Netscape released the netscape 5.x code to the mozilla group they had to strip it of anything proprietary. You luck out that Mark doesn't allow any code into the main tree that isn't possible for Digium to release in a license other than GPL. But for this price, and the effort Digium made to produce the driver, you must pay a fee. If you use google to search the archive you will find it to be something like $15 per DS0. > I do have a couple of dialogic boards that I would like to use, I dont > want my old investment to be useless. This is why ebay is around. Someone will buy them. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
