Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:48:56 +0000 (GMT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: drivers/telephony and winmodems |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi! > > > On other Unixen (and the Non-functional Telephony platform) every CTI vendor > > has their own interfaces (someone say "TAPI". I need a good > > laugh). With > > TAPI :-) > > > nothing to apply suitable pressure they are going to do the same on Linux, > > when they finally wake up and get serious about it. Some vendors (e.g. Pika > > and NMS) have had beta drivers for months, with little progress. It is unclear > > what their real intentions are. Dialogic looks like it is about to enter the > > frey, with more beta drivers. Again its intentions are unclear, but I'm damned > > certain a core intention is to keep everything as proprietary as possible. > > A strong framework being pushed from within Linux development itself might > > mitigate this somewhat. Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > Are not current "winmodems" serious competition to so-called telephony > devices? They tend to be cheap...
Not really, telephony devices come with now up to 240 ports while winmodems come with 1.
You put E1/T1 circuits (or sometimes many analogue lines) into these telephony devices, but put 1 analogue line into a winmodem. This means a PC can only take x ports with a winmodem (x being number of card slots).
Regards
Zaheer
> Pavel > -- > I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." > Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents me at discuss@linmodems.org > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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