{"id":27632,"date":"2011-03-23T18:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T22:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=27632"},"modified":"2016-06-27T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:00:17","slug":"digium-vs-sangoma-which-pci-cards-are-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/digium-vs-sangoma-which-pci-cards-are-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Digium vs. Sangoma: Which PCI Cards Are Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was given the dubious task of comparing\u00a0Digium vs. Sangoma <a title=\"PCI Cards\" href=\"\/ip-pbx-hardware\/pci-cards\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'PCI cards');\">PCI cards<\/a>.\u00a0 I probably would have been better off if I\u2019d been tasked with \u201cWho\u2019s the bigger train wreck, Linsday Lohan or Charlie Sheen?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, it\u2019s like comparing green apples to red ones.\u00a0 Both have their good points and both have not so good points.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, instead of giving my opinion on which is better,\u00a0Digium or Sangoma (Not Lohan or Sheen!); I decided to list the pros and cons of each card manufacturer and you can derive your opinion from that.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for the the Pros and Cons.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Sangoma Pros<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Backplane technology allows you to add up to 6 a200 series cards or 4 a400 series cards in a server only using (1) PCI or PCIe bus.<\/li>\n<li>Half-height bracket support on all cards and ships with these brackets.<\/li>\n<li>Support for up to 8 T1 circuits.<\/li>\n<li>Sangoma Fax Sync solution<\/li>\n<li>Analog<a title=\"Sangoma A200 Series Analog Cards\" href=\"\/manufacturer\/sangoma\/analog-cards\/a200\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Sangoma A200 series');\"> Sangoma A200 series <\/a>ports glow red for FXO and green for FXS signifying to the user which ports are what functionality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sangoma Cons<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Not field upgradable in regards to hardware echo cancellation.<\/li>\n<li>Requires A200 cables for the A200 series cards to break out from proprietary RJ10 port to standard RJ11 jack.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sangoma A400 Series Analog Cards\" href=\"\/manufacturer\/sangoma\/analog-cards\/a400\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Sangoma A400');\">Sangoma A400 <\/a>series cards use a proprietary DB-25 connection which you must use the A400 pigtail cable shipped with the card or purchase the <a title=\"Sangoma Y Cable\" href=\"\/amphenol-y-cable\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Sangoma\u00a0Y Cable');\">Sangoma\u00a0Y Cable <\/a>to connect to RJ-21 Amphenol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Digium pros<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>4 port (Digium AEX400)\u00a0and 8 port (Digium AEX800)\u00a0cards support standard RJ11 jacks, and 24 port cards (Digium\u00a0AEX2400)\u00a0support standard RJ-21 Amphenol.<\/li>\n<li>Field upgradeable echo cancellation modules (can be added after the purchase).<\/li>\n<li>Created by and supported by the makers of Asterisk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Digium Cons<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Digium Analog Cards\" href=\"\/manufacturer\/digium\/analog-cards\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Digium Analog series cards');\">Digium Analog series cards <\/a>do not support half height brackets.<\/li>\n<li>Expandability may require the use of additional PCI or PCIe buses on the server motherboard (No backplane technology).<\/li>\n<li>T1 cards only up to 4 T1.<\/li>\n<li>Pins on cards used to connect FXO\/FXS and echo cancellation modules have a tendency to get bent very easily and break.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was given the dubious task of comparing\u00a0Digium vs. Sangoma PCI cards.\u00a0 I probably would have been better off if I\u2019d been tasked with \u201cWho\u2019s the bigger train wreck, Linsday Lohan or Charlie Sheen?&#8221;\u00a0 In both cases, it\u2019s like comparing green apples to red ones.\u00a0 Both have their good points and both have not so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1075,1109,1218,1221,1225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asterisk","category-fax-over-ip","category-open-source-voip","category-small-business-voip","category-voip-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27632"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182373,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions\/182373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}