Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

[Jeff Gustafson]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:10 -0500, Aaron Daniel wrote:
> Well, the TE410P and TE411P work in the PCI-X slots since it's backwards 
> compatible.  So I guess in effect, the Digium's cards already do support 
> it :)
> 

	My fault.  I meant to say PCI-e, which is a newer bus that Dell is
shipping on their server class machines.

				...Jeff

> Aaron
> 
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Jeff Gustafson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 13:49 -0300, Joshua Colp wrote:
> >
> >> Some people have problems, some people don't. There is no way you can be
> >> prepared for every situation out there. We try our best.
> >>
> >
> > 	I was looking at using a Dell server for running Asterisk and noticed
> > that Dell has started using PCI-X on a lot of their new systems.  Does
> > this newer bus standard help the situation with faxing?
> > 	Will Digium offer cards that support the new bus?
> > 	What about a new line of Digium cards that have bridge cables that run
> > between the various cards and bypass the PCI bus?  Since one of the best
> > aspects of using Asterisk is standards.  This bridge cable should be
> > standardized and published so that other companies can adopt the
> > standard.  For example an ISDN card could bridge to a Digium T1 card.
> > Or a card that supported legacy digital phones could bridge to other
> > cards.
> > 				...Jeff
> >
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