[asterisk-users] Hardware Platform Recommendations for Digium Card Compatability

[Jason K. Carter]

Hi there,

Could everyone that has a working production Asterisk server that uses a 
Digium telephony card as a BRI/PRI gateway let me know what 
motherboard/processor your server uses?

We use a Digium TE210P as our telephony card.  We have tried a couple 
motherboards, and neither is giving us satisfactory zttest scores.

The machine we have in production right now is a Biostar U8668-D (VIA 
8237R chipset) with a P4 2.4 GHz, but that system gives regular scores 
barely above the 98% mark, with occasional dips below.  We've tried one 
other board based on an Intel 865 chipset with a 2.8GHz Celeron, and 
that board gives regular 100% marks, with dips down to 95% every 5 
seconds or so, which makes it pretty unusable.

Any help in identifying a better motherboard for Digium cards would be 
appreciated.

Thank you,

Jason Carter
Software Engineer
DLS Internet Services
jkcarter at dls.net