Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax + Eicon PRI card stability / volume question

[Guillaume Ross <guillaumer@xxxxxxxxx>]

The reason we are getting rid of the analog lines is because the pricing 
will be much better...even for 7-10 channels (as this is the 4th or 5th 
PRI that will be installed in this office..)

I haven't been able to find pricing for the digital card, but can anyone 
give me a ballpark figure for both the Eicon and the Patton?


Lee Howard a écrit :
> Andrew and Guillaume,
>
> I've consulted a number of different companies when they were 
> considering installing T1/E1 lines.  It makes a fair amount of 
> monetary sense - simply from the standpoint of the monthly overhead - 
> if you're talking about 24 channels.  The monetary benefits really 
> become quite hazy when you get into the 7-10 channel range, and I 
> guess it really depends on what kind of pricing you can get for a 
> fractional T1/E1.
>
> The big downside to digital installations, in my opinion, is the lack 
> of selection/competition in HylaFAX-compatible hardware for digital 
> installations.  I've never used CAPI4Hylafax or ISDN4Linux, and as 
> those softwares are not developed in concert with HylaFAX development, 
> I've never considered using them, either.  So that leaves us with the 
> Eicon Diva Server and the Patton 2977.  I have long since always 
> recommended the Patton over the Eicon because the Patton's true Class 
> 1 interface gives the control of the fax protocol to HylaFAX.  The 
> Diva Server's "fax Class" interface is something like a fax proxy, and 
> any DCE-to-DCE fixes or modifications that need to occur must always 
> come from Eicon - and I prefer to be in as much control of the fax 
> protocol as possible.  That said, Eicon's work tends to be good and I 
> don't expect there to appear many problems with it.  The one thing 
> that the Diva Server has going for it over the Patton 2977, though, is 
> that it supports V.34-Fax (SuperG3) whereas the 2977 doesn't... which 
> in the long run may actually save a fax sender a lot of money.
>
> However, the selections in analog equipment for faxing is much better, 
> and in my opinion the performance of analog faxing equipment, such as 
> MainPine's RockForce cards, is superior to the performance of digital 
> faxing equipment.  In theory this should not be the case, as the PRI 
> D-channel gives digital solutions an advantage... but in practice my 
> analog installations outperform the digital ones (although not by much).
>
> Lee.
>
> Andrew Rinaldi wrote:
>
> > Good luck !
> >
> > Andrew
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Guillaume Ross [mailto:guillaumer@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 03 February 
> > 2006 10:04
> > To: andrew.rinaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax + Eicon PRI card stability / volume
> > question
> >
> > We plan on ditching all Analog lines before the end of the year so 
> > analog is
> > a no no..
> >
> > I think I will try with an Eicon card..
> >  

--
Guillaume Ross
Network Administrator
Blue Mountain Wallcoverings
450-645-2609


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