[Asterisk-biz] Large Asterisk Setup (~500 Concurrent Calls + Scalability)

[Brian West]

> Originally, we planned to implement this design by purchasing one
> multi-processor machine and putting multiple quad-span T1 cards
> (Wildcard TE4xxPs) into it.  Through research, it was determined that
> the PCI bus couldn't handle the digital signal processing (DSP) from
> more than one quad-span card.
>

The PCI bus doesn't do any processing.. The CPU would be... you can get 
two or more quad cards in a box if you  don't do any transcoding.


/b