[Asterisk-Users] Number of TDM405 Cards in one server

[Brian McSpadden]

>From what I have heard, read and seen, the most you will ever want to
do is two, and that is only in certain situations, i.e. you are not
doing much/any transcoding, IVR's, a bunch of conferences, etc. A
better solution would be multiple 1U servers, potentially, even though
I realize, space is money.

Someone else might have a different opinion here, but 288 channels
seems like a few too many, given what I have seen of these boards.
They're good hardware, but somewhat demanding on the machine, in
unseen ways.


On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:39:33 -0600, michael at matraex.com
<michael at matraex.com> wrote:
> Has any one put 3 or more TDM405P or TDM410P cards in a single server?
> I would like to fit as many as 6 into one box.
> 
> I am concerned about several things such as power requirements and the
> amount of cooling as well as CPU and memory utilization.
> Is there a difference in the power consumption and heat between the 5.0v
> and 3.3v boards would one be better than the other for such a dense
> situation?
> I have not been able to find any recommendations from digium on this
> side of things.
> 
> Has any one implemented this in the past and what did you have to worry
> about.
> What type of motherboard/system/memory/cpu did you use or what do you
> think would be best.
> I get to start from scratch on this but I would like it to be as dense
> as possible since it is going into a Colocation Rack at a data center
> and space is money.
> 
> Thanks
> Michael
> 
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