[Asterisk-Users] Hardware and E1

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 10:52, Eduardo Goncalves wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:41:22 -0500 (CDT)
> Martin Pycko <martinp at digium.com> wrote:
> 
> > With Pentium 4 1Ghz you propably can handle only one E400P (propably only
> > 3 spans, maybe 4)
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> 
> 	Is it possible to handle 2 or more E400P on the same machine?

This question has been hashed out about 3 times in the last 1-2 months.
Please use the archives to familiarize yourself with the problems of
providing you specs for a setup based on your lacking description of
what you intend to do with it.

As for the simple question you pose on this email, yes you could run 2
E400P cards in the same machine. I believe Digium mention running 3 at
one time in a machine, but didn't recommend exceeding 2. At the lowest
level a E1 is just a 2mbit/s serial line. 8 * 2mbit is only 16mbit/s and
well below the data throughput of a bottom of the line NIC. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>