Agreed. But, analog is still very prevalent in many areas.
If you watch "carefully", you may see one or more companies releasing x86 based
products with analog FXO/FXS capabilities in the very near future. :-)
Tim Nelson
Systems/Network Support
Rockbochs Inc.
(218)727-4332 x105
----- "David Kerr" <da...@kerr.net> wrote:
>
> When I started playing in this space a few years ago I looked at the
> blackfin. It was in its infancy then. The attractive feature of the boxes was
> the built-in analog interfaces, meaning that you did not need an ATA device
> to bridge to traditional phones, PBX's or CO lines. However as things stand
> today I don't know that I care any more. Analog support is really just a
> interim step between the past and the future. Today the range of SIP devices
> is very broad and the price point of SIP phones has declined to be comparable
> to analog (for office class devices). SIP based trunk services are now just
> as good as POTS.
>
As already observed, there are plenty of x86 based appliance devices to chose
from. Whatever advantage the blackfin had a couple of years ago, I no longer
think is relevant.
>
My 2 cents...
David
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darrick Hartman [mailto: dhart...@djhsolutions.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:25 AM
> To: astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] astlinux in blackfin
>
>
> On 09/07/2010 08:09 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> > On 9/8/10 2:39 PM, Meftah Tayeb wrote:
> >> hi,
> >> doe is it pocible to run astlinux in blackfin?
> >> thank you
> >>
> >
> > It currently isn't: we're tied to runnix and x86 architecture, which is
> one reason we've been considering moving toward openwrt as a platform
> framework.
>
> We've been looking at different platforms for future AstLinux
> development. I know Philip and I disagree on this, but I don't see us
> supporting blackfin or other non x86 targets. With the number of
> available small x86 target devices, it's hard to justify the development
> effort to support alternative architectures.
>
> Darrick
> --
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