On 10/5/07, Julian Lyndon-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have looked at the recent threads regarding these two manufacturers, > but there didn't seem to be much *technical* differences between the 2, > it was rather more subjective - some people say Sangoma is better, some > say Digium. And quite a lot of "you're spreading FUD" "No, you are" etc.
To all on this thread: Buying a hardware piece for voip (or for anything) is like looking for a spouse and soulmate. What will be your best choice may not be someone else's best choice. You have all had experience debugging, right? You know that every installation has a thousand variables, both hardware and software, both human and electro-mechanical. Common wisdom states that you shouldn't run several cards in one PC, yet I have 2 X100P and one TDM400P, all early generation cards in one PIII-800 box and they work fine. Even the zaptel diagnostics score well! Of course, we have a low call volume, one of the many variables. I am positive that no scientific measurement will allow you to make a choice based on charts and reading. I was at the Axis camera exhibitor stand a few days ago, and while I looked at the different cameras the person there said immediately, if your customers want to test drive any of these, let me know and we'll lend them one for a month. A good retailer of voip hardware would perhaps be able to do this for you. Alas, I'll bet few of them can in reality. The only way to see if hardware matches your needs and your very specific installation is to try it. That means you'd either have to have a budget to test stuff and hope to resell it, or find a reseller that is willing to let you try a particular unit before paying for it or return it for credit if it doesn't perfom as planned. I am sensitive to the argument that Digium should get first consideration for the reasons already mentioned, but if another choice has been proven significantly better, I don't think anyone at Digium would rather you used their stuff if it was going to perform in an inferior manner. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
