-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, nimrood wrote: > dollars to something like we use here at our office, which cost over > $120,000US (our box has several T1 interface cards for massive scanning > and speech recognition) Just from what I read in the comparison post, [DISCLAIMER: naturally I'm not claiming to speak for Ascend in any regard whatsoever] In these days of large integrated access servers, it's suprising how so many of these products recently discussed make a big deal of how they can drive 3 or 4 modems at once. I use a system I wrote internally here for testing - it drives Max 4000s/6000s/TNTs "in reverse" - virtualising a Max digital modem to a *nix serial port. My test PC here "thinks" it has 120 serial ports - which can all be individually driven with bog-standard chat, pppd, etc. Really anyone with more than an ounce of systems programming experience, a little C, and a little Perl, plus an access server or four can easily come up with a system that can generate more phone traffic than your average small town. I really wonder how useful these "phone scanner" programs are when they are so easy to "do it yourself." After all - they all have the same essential limitations (a modem can't tell the difference between a voice prompt or a human being by itself) - their only differences are their user interface, data collection and export functions, and degree of automation. I guess it comes down to whether you can pay for multiple E1/T1s or not. :-) - -- Josh Bailey (mailto:joshat_private - Intranet: http://home.ascend.com.au/~jbailey) Escalation Support, Asia-Pacific Voice: +61-3-9656-7000 Ascend Communications, Inc Fax: +61-3-9656-7003 Level 38, ANZ Tower, 55 Collins St Mobile: +61-417-128-921 Melbourne, Australia PGP: SEND FILE jbailey.asc "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- W. A. Harlinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNoq2X8yBE5tx+aP1AQHrcwMApaT17gVFbzJopwWJOv61jr2w5fcRmgnc fJaEE14uC+uiNYnlItYa+db50ALLkZxNQNPGaDDDbWORxcqLX4MXQ2T2zxtvqar0 SYdDKo6mJt9NGOrgyHXACrlY4JZJt5cv =HQYh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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