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
> --
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