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

[Brian T. Roy]

Honestly, if you want 672 channels in 1u have someone else do the
gateway services... like AT&T.

There is no reason (my opinion here) to have Asterisk doing whopping big
GW... the PSTN will need something to do soon... let them do it.


On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:17 -0500, Race Vanderdecken wrote:
> Yes it might be crazy, but what if it worked?
> 
> Let us stipulate for the moment that it will work, given a fast server
> to run it on.
> 
> 	45Mbps comes in 64Mbps second goes out. That means a gigabit
> interface out the back.
> 
> 	Get a CPU with a load of speed and cache.
> 
> 	672 voice channels in 1U.
> 
> 	If it can fit in a PCI slot then the sever motherboard can
> transfer the data to a program
> 
> 	672 threads? Hmm, might be better with 28 threads, save on
> thread swapping times.
> 
> So, it is working at time X in the future.
> 
> What is the business use for such a toy?
> 
> Race Vanderdecken
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> alex at pilosoft.com
> Sent: 18 November 2004 15:49
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Is there a need for a DS3 channel/driver?
> 
> 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 ;)
> -alex
> 
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