Jeff Davis wrote: > Stephen Bosch wrote: >> Your rep at Sangoma? Or your reseller? > > That wasn't very clear. Sorry. It was Sangoma. > (I would be more verbose, but I don't want to spam the list)
I just wanted to make sure it wasn't stale information. >> This is a real chicken-and-egg problem. More people would get BRI if >> there were affordable hardware for it. >> >> I would like to see them write a NAm driver for it. To get them to take >> the chance, there have to be enough people willing to purchase the card >> to make them consider it seriously. >> >> The other option is a bounty or community support to get it done. The >> hardware already exists. >> >> The more people make noise about this, the better the chances of that >> happening. > > > If there was a driver available, I'm still not sure how many installs I > could sell. Verizon wants to pretend the service doesn't exist, and the > largest CLEC in my area doesn't even sell it. (I even offered to buy my > CLEC rep dinner and she wouldn't sell it to me.) This is not at all surprising -- they'd be re-selling Verizon's service. We've already heard from another poster how eager CLECs are to resell the incumbent's service. A lot of mutual sabotage goes on (and I have this from insiders). There is the theory of the "deregulated, competitive market" and then there is the practice. > Without telco support I > think that the only real market for this is the DIY crowd. ISDN had the bad luck of entering adoption right around the AT&T breakup. BRI does cost as much to provision as PRI for a smaller revenue, so, with maximizing profits on the brain, they're just not keen. It's also small thinking. But it is also the law. This stuff is supposed to be available. > Of course, as you point out, we'll never know how big the market is > without a driver. The marginal effort of another driver is comparatively low. The card already exists. > I think that the only real incentive for Sangoma to write a driver for > an unproven market would be if there were a community driver available, > and the cards start selling. The addition of a manufacturer supplied and > supported driver would likely increase sales. This is the source of my other suggestion, that we put up a bounty or launch a community driver project. I've always felt there was latent demand -- this is an unserved need: - smaller installations need advanced features like call progress control, that they can only get in a BRI - the advantages in sound quality are substantial when compared with analog - unmanaged VoIP lines are just not reliable enough for serious businesses - North America is totally behind on this, we look like chumps I'm prepared to sacrifice myself for this and get a BRI for our office if we can get a driver that supports the signalling. That's a contribution I'm happy to make. -Stephen- _______________________________________________ --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
