[Freeswitch-users] Howler - Gone?

[Steve Underwood]

On 07/22/2010 12:55 AM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> 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
>    
I'm told that in the next few weeks G.723.1 will be added to the mix on 
the Sangoma card.
>> 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 :).
>
>    
Steve