On 5/17/2025 11:11 AM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 5/17/25 11:04, N. Albert wrote:
I have a CMG card myself but haven't done anything much with it, and using TDM is really the proper way to set up a channel bank
That's the way we do it at LSSM for our internal dial-in pool and BBSes. TDM is so much simpler and free of hassle compared to SIP.
That, and it's significantly more feature rich, when dealing with analog phones. There's a lot of cool stuff you can do with TDM that you just can't do with SIP. From what I understand, VCF Midwest also uses real TDM at their conference and not SIP.
Yep. I was going to stop short of saying "SIP is a steaming pile", but I'll go ahead and say it: "SIP is a steaming pile".
+1
(I'm also a bit biased, I'm the primarily developer of TDM related stuff in Asterisk nowadays.)
Oh, very cool. I did some work for Digium (Solaris drivers for some PCI cards) about twenty years ago.
Neat! Unfortunately, I'd be surprised if DAHDI ran on anything besides Linux nowadays. DAHDI BSD hasn't been maintained in forever. Even on Linux, maintenance from the company has been basically nonexistent, I am doing basically all of it (and I don't work for Digium/Sangoma). The company has really gone downhill since Mark Spencer left to fly airplanes and they sold to Sangoma, they no longer have anyone on payroll that really understands the TDM stuff at all.