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

[Jesus M. Lares]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Jeff
> Gustafson
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 1:00 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards,
> sodisappointing !)
>
>
> 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.

This standard already exists, it's called H.100 and it uses a ribbon cable
between cards.

> 				...Jeff
>
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