hell i just got a quote today for D240JCT-1T1 for $4500ish
"Steven M. Sokol" wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
