Comments for VoIPsupply - digium alternatives and asterisk hardware options http://voipsupply.wordpress.com A blog about Asterisk compatible hardware Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:43:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on An interesting look on Asterisk Hardware by johnnyvoip http://voipsupply.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/an-interesting-look-on-asterisk-hardware/#comment-6 johnnyvoip Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:43:56 +0000 http://voipsupply.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/an-interesting-look-on-asterisk-hardware/#comment-6 Well, for one, there is no VoIPsupply nor a Digium bashing campaign here. I only research what I can find over the internet and simply post it here, and giving due credit to sources. Regarding Tom’s blog, it dates June 2007, which is around 4 months ago. If Digium has indeed addressed the admitted bad hardware at this time, then good for them and their customers. With the huge links to VoIPsupply’s and Digium’s official websites, I don’t think this blog will have an effect at all. It simply informs the public about digium alternatives. Well, for one, there is no VoIPsupply nor a Digium bashing campaign here. I only research what I can find over the internet and simply post it here, and giving due credit to sources. Regarding Tom’s blog, it dates June 2007, which is around 4 months ago. If Digium has indeed addressed the admitted bad hardware at this time, then good for them and their customers. With the huge links to VoIPsupply’s and Digium’s official websites, I don’t think this blog will have an effect at all. It simply informs the public about digium alternatives.

]]> Comment on An interesting look on Asterisk Hardware by Jared Smith http://voipsupply.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/an-interesting-look-on-asterisk-hardware/#comment-4 Jared Smith Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:21:19 +0000 http://voipsupply.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/an-interesting-look-on-asterisk-hardware/#comment-4 I think this post (and to be honest, the name of this blog in general) is a bit disingenuous. First and foremost, you call this blog VoiPsupply (which happens to be the name of a well-known VoIP hardware supplier) while using posts to steer people away from them and towards your own website. At the same time, to quote old posts from Tom Keating's blog is also dodgy at best. In case you or your readers aren't aware, Digium has invested lots of time and effort to re-architect their line of hardware cards to eliminate the IRQ and PCI bus errors that some customers experienced in the past. (Digium openly admits that they've made some bad hardware design decisions in the past, and their VoiceBus architecture was created to address that.) To quote Tom's old blog posting as if they were an accurate representation of the current state of the card market obviously isn't telling the whole story. To me, this whole blog smells of a smear campaign... something along the lines of "let's malign VoIP Supply and Digium so that people will buy other manufacturer's cards from us". -Jared Smith I think this post (and to be honest, the name of this blog in general) is a bit disingenuous. First and foremost, you call this blog VoiPsupply (which happens to be the name of a well-known VoIP hardware supplier) while using posts to steer people away from them and towards your own website. At the same time, to quote old posts from Tom Keating’s blog is also dodgy at best.

In case you or your readers aren’t aware, Digium has invested lots of time and effort to re-architect their line of hardware cards to eliminate the IRQ and PCI bus errors that some customers experienced in the past. (Digium openly admits that they’ve made some bad hardware design decisions in the past, and their VoiceBus architecture was created to address that.) To quote Tom’s old blog posting as if they were an accurate representation of the current state of the card market obviously isn’t telling the whole story.

To me, this whole blog smells of a smear campaign… something along the lines of “let’s malign VoIP Supply and Digium so that people will buy other manufacturer’s cards from us”.

-Jared Smith

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