asterisk users - Sep 2003 - Hardware Vendors for Asterisk other than "DIGIUM"

Hello all,

Could you please suggest me other hardware vendors whose FXS, FXO 
interfaces are compatible with Asterisk. I am aware that Digium 
products work well but I would be interested in knowing about 
other options available in the market.

Thanks,
Tarun
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Hi,

Buy the hardware from Digium to help support the software development
side. :)

Travis
 

Tarun Banka wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Could you please suggest me other hardware vendors whose FXS, FXO
> interfaces are compatible with Asterisk. I am aware that Digium
> products work well but I would be interested in knowing about
> other options available in the market.
>
> Thanks,
> Tarun
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On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:49, Tarun Banka wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Could you please suggest me other hardware vendors whose FXS, FXO 
> interfaces are compatible with Asterisk. I am aware that Digium 
> products work well but I would be interested in knowing about 
> other options available in the market.
There is only one other good choice of open source hardware and that is
Voicetronix cards. At $895 for 6 ports, it is way more expensive than
Digium equipment. They are considerably more expensive though and do not
contribute to the stability of Digium.

If you go for one of the other proprietary providers like Dialogic, you
will have to pay a licensing fee for the asterisk code to deal with the
non GPLed nature of the drivers you will need. You also may be blocking
yourself from legally using certain third part patches that may be
developed since you will no longer be using a fully GPLed version of
asterisk. Take note how Cisco had to release all their firewall code for
a linksys router because it was built up on an embedded linux software
platform. 

If you are wanting to develop on asterisk or for asterisk, then you
should consider the digium hardware.  
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch@basesys.com>

Tarun,

The Digium site shows other hardware that is compatible with Asterisk.

I would strongly urge you to support Digium by buying their products.

Peter

At 19:49 15/09/2003 -0000, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Could you please suggest me other hardware vendors whose FXS, FXO 
>interfaces are compatible with Asterisk. I am aware that Digium 
>products work well but I would be interested in knowing about 
>other options available in the market.
>
>Thanks,
>Tarun
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On 15 Sep 2003, Tarun  Banka wrote:
> Hello all,
> Could you please suggest me other hardware vendors whose FXS, FXO
> interfaces are compatible with Asterisk. I am aware that Digium
> products work well but I would be interested in knowing about
> other options available in the market.
So far, the Digium cards are the only ones that seem to work well.
It would be nice if the VoiceTronix cards were supported, as they seem to
be supported on platforms other than Win/Linux.