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Originally Posted by delph
I've had an OBi for about a year and a half now, though I use mine with a paid VOIP provider. Great little device.
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I've heard good things about OBi ATAs, but never had any real reason to update my Linksys one -- which has been in use for about five or six years now. What's weird is that the same guys (as Komodo Technology) invented the first ATAs (KF-200?) -- they sold out to Cisco in 2000 and these ATAs were renamed ATA-186 (and, I think, ATA-188) and these are still marketed by Cisco. Then, in 2002, the Komodo founders left Cisco and formed Sipura and marketed the SPA-xxxx line of ATAs. Sipura was also bought out by Cisco (this time under the Linksys name -- I think Linksys had just been bought out by Cisco). Cisco still markets ATAs based on Sipura's technology but now under their own name -- so for several years now, they have simultaneously marketed the ATA-186 line under the Cisco name and the SPAxxxx line under Linksys' (and now under their own name). Then, in 2010 (I believe), the same folks who founded Komodo and Sipura broke off again from Cisco and founded OBihai. So all three generations of their ATAs -- first made in the 1990s -- are still marketed. I would say they know what they're doing.