[asterisk-users] OT: USB T1/E1 Interface?

[Steve Edwards]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Frank at explido.us wrote:

>> Why? There used to be a saying 'usb is for mice, firewire is for men',
>> though USB has grown a bit in bandwidth since then, it is still not very
>> well suited for a high sustained bandwidth. NOw T1/E1 is not that big, I
>> suspect a lack of demand. Havng a E1 termintae in your laptop is quite
>> useless, and a server usually has plenty of slots (if not, buy a bigger
>> server ;-).
>
> I can well understand the idea of having USB T1 adapters since that way
> you can colocate 1U Asterisk systems  ;-) which at least doubles you
> density in a rack...

) Impress the hell out of a client -- "Our PBX smoked and this guy is
running our telecoms on his laptop!"

) Inline/passthrough diagnosis and monitoring -- kind of like a network
sniffer.

Thanks in advance,
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