How does Grandstream become patent indemnified for their hardware? I would assume they did not pay for a license for G723,1 and G729 directly to the patent holding company. Maybe they did. I always assumed the indemnification came with a DSP that implemented the codec.
--Eric On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 10:25, Nicolas Bougues wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:44:36AM -0600, Eric Wieling wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 02:34, Nicolas Bougues wrote: > > > These are quite cheap components (the most expensive part is the $6 > > > DSP). > > > > What *I* want to know is why someone has not made a CHEAP PCI card with > > 4, 8, or 16 of these DSPs on it. This kind of card would provide > > > > PCI boards embedding DSPs exist. However, they are not very cheap, > because : > - they require PCI glue (FPGA, or some sort of bridge chipset). DSPs > usually can't be directly connected to the PCI bus. They probably > also need some RAM, or a more complex CPU to drive them. > - such existing board usually provide some kind of PCM highways, > and/or switch matrices to connect to the telecom environnement > - this is a small market : this drives prices up quite fast. > > > hardware assisted DSP functions as well as patent indemnification. > > Would you even have to USE the DPSs in order to be patent indemnified? > > Err, I don't see the point with patent indemnification. The price you > pay for the patent depends on which patents (ie, which algorithms) you > use. Unless your board is limited (by firmware, for instance), to a > certain set of algorithms, you can't include the price of the > algorithm in the board. -- Go to http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=documentation and look at the "Unofficial Links" section. This section has links to a wide variety of 3rd party Asterisk related pages. My page is the "Asterisk Resource Pages". BTEL Consulting 504-899-1387 or 850-484-4545 or 877-677-9643 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users