[Asterisk-Users] DS3 PCI in asterisk

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Matthew Crocker wrote:

> The MAXIM-921 DS from SBS supports DS3 -> DS0 channelized.  It is a PMC 
> for CompactPCI it comes with Drivers for Linux, how hard would it be to 
> add libpri and asterisk support?

Holy G.711 Batman!

This site:

http://www.datamktg.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=53

has a press release showing the cost of this board $1645 each, quantity 
one. Even if you had to spend a few grand for a cPCI capable machine 
with enough grunt to handle this much channel capacity, you could still 
do a pretty good job for under $10K.