Sangoma verus Digium Cards

[kieranmullen]

I have not seen much of a price difference between the two of them. Perhaps I am not looking in the right places?

Are there other options other than the digium cards?

What is sangomas selling point?

Thank you

KieranMullen

[mflorell]

There isn't really a price difference between them. another option is the new Rhino.

Sangoma cards have a 5 year warranty and are guaranteed to work in any PCI-compliant motherboard, Digium cards have a 2 year warranty and more of their purchase price goes to development of Asterisk. Also, Digium has a transcoding card which is not available from anyone else.

[enjay]

Support the effort go Digium! If you need a reseller shoot me an email.

-Art

[kieranmullen]

quickly taking a look at rhino... I suppose they would be used for larger than dual t1 installations? Do the channel banks themselves perform DAC?

I suppose its the DAC that makes the cards expensive? A Single T1/E1 digum is half the cost of a 8 line TDM808B card.

KieranMullen

[enjay]

I don't know a lot about Rhino other than they are here in Phoenix, Arizona where I am located.

I did speak briefly with their sales reps regarding channel banks and decided to go with adtrans instead.

There website shows their dual T1/E1 card at 649$ Im not sure what it does in terms of echo cancellation however.

-Art

[kieranmullen]

I have dealt with adtran and rad data dommunications channel banks and multiplexers. I used to work for a distributer for a number of years putting together channel banks and multiplexers.

Dual = $600 ? I have Seen Single at $200-300 Where are the savings buying larger cards?

KM

[enjay]

They are exponentially more expensive. You dont save money on cards that can facilitate more T1/E1's but to save money on not having to purchase additional servers to facilitate the cards (PCI Slot Limitations). Some installs which require say 10 T1's, I've yet to see a server with that many PCI slots.

So if you were to purchase 10 single T1 cards you clearly could not put them in the same server, however if you purchased 2 quads and a dual there are typically 3 available PCI slots.

Hope this makes sense.

-Art