Joel, I know there are some very vocal critics of the TDM cards on this newsgroup, but we also have many customers who are using them with no problems. There are many variables involved and I am not personally convinced that it is fair to say all of the reported problems are the fault of the Digium cards.
Digium did have a bad revision of these cards, and frankly they did not do a good job of getting these problem units out of circulation. It is possible that a good percentage of the troubles we hear about are related to this bad batch of cards. Also, it does seem that the use of multiple cards is less reliable in some systems. The Digium cards offer low cost and tight integration with Asterisk, both big benefits. Another option worthy of consideration is to use external analog gateways such as those offered by Mediatrix or Audiocodes. My personal opinion is that separating the analog interface from the Asterisk server offers significant architectural advantages, but the cost is higher and these devices have their own learning curve. We use the TDM cards in our own systems all the time with no problems. Then again, we also use every other thing that people warn against on here: VIA motherboards, Fedora, Grandstream phones. Sometimes it takes some diligence to work through the issues, but in all these cases we have determined that these products offered benefits that made the effort worthwhile. Michael Crown Managing Partner The VoIP Connection vox: 321.989.6728 ext. 611 fax: 321.989.0284 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
