[Freeswitch-users] Howler - Gone?

[Kristian Kielhofner]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:
> Don't they have G.723.1 support? If not, that's a sad omission. Quite a
> few people need that, and only the Digium card has been able to offer it
> in a properly licenced manner.

  Sadly (and surprisingly) no.  At least the specs don't claim it:

http://www.sangoma.com/products/hardware_products/transcoding.html

> There is no practical way to licence the patents for GSM-EFR, AMR -NB or
> AMR-WB for small to medium volume use. Sangoma get their licencing
> through the silicon they use. Same for Digium with their G.729 + G.723.1
> card licencing. Licencing through the silicon also gets G.729 patent
> licencing at much lower prices than the way Digium, Freeswitch and
> Howler need to licence the same patents for their purely software
> products. Its all rather messy, really.
>

  I figured this was due to some legal thing :).

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