[Asterisk-Dev] Is there a need for a DS3 channel/driver?

[Peter Svensson]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Mike M wrote:
> 
> > Sometimes in the so-called unchannelized streams you are informed of
> > where the frame boundry is in the bitstream.  With that information one
> > can create soft-channelization.  Perhaps this is unreasonable for a DS3
> > however.
> Given that its a tough problem to drive current generation of quad-T1 
> cards without frame slips, I think doing soft-ds3 stuff is crazy. It could 
> be possible given enough buffers...But I think its crazy ;)

I thought the consensus was that the current problems are that the stock 
kernel has a hard time guaranteeing interrupt latencies well below 1ms. 
The actual cpu utilization seems not to be too bad. 

It would be a neat trick.

Peter