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

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Scott Laird wrote:

> anymore.  I mean, modern PCs can clearly handle over 1 Gbps of
> bus-mastered data traffic, so there's no real reason to assume that they
> couldn't handle 45 Mbps of voice traffic *if* the interface between the
> computer and the card was reasonable and we didn't have to do much more
> then slap headers on buffers and ship them out.
But that kinda assumes custom-designed hardware, not a generic
unchannelized ds3 card hardware.

> I'm not convinced that the economics for DS3 cards makes a lot of sense,
> but I don't think the technology is completely out of our reach, either.
Sure.

-alex