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November 02, 2007
Sangoma Casts Derision on Digium's Annoucement of 'Industry First' Eight Port Telephony Card
By Patrick Barnard
TMCnet Contributing Editor
TMCnet Contributing Editor
Although Digium (News - Alert) Inc. today introduced “the industry’s first eight port PCI Express-based telephony card” -- the AEX800 -- the folks at Sangoma want to make you aware of the fact that they delivered a higher quality board with the same capabilities nearly a year ago.
Not long after Digium announced its new product this week, Sangoma shot off an email to TMCnet alerting us to the fact that this "industry first” was in fact, achieved in November 2006, when Sangoma released its A400 card, an analog card that was the “first in the industry” to achieve 8 ports on one base card. The card starts off with a minimum of 2 ports on one blade, but is shipped in increments of 2, 4, 6, 8 or 12 per base card -- and can expand even further, up to 48 ports, with a Remora expansion card.
Sangoma claims the Digium’s new card “is an entirely derivative product based on designs that Sangoma had in service more than a year ago.”
Sangoma’s A400 Series is the high density version of its popular A200 series analog cards. It is identical in operation and configuration as the A200 and uses the same FXO and FXS modules. The A400 system supports up to 12 ports per main board -- and with the REMORA solution, up to 48 ports. As Sangoma CEO David Mandelstam (News - Alert) pointed out in last year’s press release, "additional REMORA cards can be added to the base 12-port A400 card,” and "a single PCI or PCI Express slot host connection can support up to 48 FXO/FXS ports with common synchronous clocking for all channels.”
Similar to Digium’s , the A400 supports Sangoma's echo cancellation
and voice enhancement DSP daughterboard for carrier grade echo cancellation and voice enhancement.
Mandelstam even predicted a year ago that this would happen:
"VoIP telephony with all its promise still needs access to the existing PSTN network and many of those connections are analog FXO or FXS,” he said upon the release of the A400 series last year. “To meet this requirement we are taking an industry lead by providing a price/performance solution that our competitors will now attempt to follow.”
If want to learn more about the Sangoma A400 series and see a list of specifications, click here.
To see last year’s press release introducing the A400 series, click here.
And for more information about Sangoma, in general, visit www.sangoma.com.
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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for Customer Interaction Solutions magazine and Assignment Editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.
Not long after Digium announced its new product this week, Sangoma shot off an email to TMCnet alerting us to the fact that this "industry first” was in fact, achieved in November 2006, when Sangoma released its A400 card, an analog card that was the “first in the industry” to achieve 8 ports on one base card. The card starts off with a minimum of 2 ports on one blade, but is shipped in increments of 2, 4, 6, 8 or 12 per base card -- and can expand even further, up to 48 ports, with a Remora expansion card.
Sangoma claims the Digium’s new card “is an entirely derivative product based on designs that Sangoma had in service more than a year ago.”
Sangoma’s A400 Series is the high density version of its popular A200 series analog cards. It is identical in operation and configuration as the A200 and uses the same FXO and FXS modules. The A400 system supports up to 12 ports per main board -- and with the REMORA solution, up to 48 ports. As Sangoma CEO David Mandelstam (News - Alert) pointed out in last year’s press release, "additional REMORA cards can be added to the base 12-port A400 card,” and "a single PCI or PCI Express slot host connection can support up to 48 FXO/FXS ports with common synchronous clocking for all channels.”
Similar to Digium’s , the A400 supports Sangoma's echo cancellation
and voice enhancement DSP daughterboard for carrier grade echo cancellation and voice enhancement.Mandelstam even predicted a year ago that this would happen:
"VoIP
telephony with all its promise still needs access to the existing PSTN network and many of those connections are analog FXO or FXS,” he said upon the release of the A400 series last year. “To meet this requirement we are taking an industry lead by providing a price/performance solution that our competitors will now attempt to follow.”If want to learn more about the Sangoma A400 series and see a list of specifications, click here.
To see last year’s press release introducing the A400 series, click here.
And for more information about Sangoma, in general, visit www.sangoma.com.
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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for Customer Interaction Solutions magazine and Assignment Editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.
