[Asterisk-Users] Port density: DS3 cards?

[William Waites]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:34:02PM -0000, Linus Surguy wrote:
> I don't want to criticize your idea, but you do have to consider certain
> points. Starting from (as has already been mentioned) the bandwidth of DS3
> is far too much to reasonably shove down the PCI bus without data loss /
> excessive overheads.

??? 

a standard 32 bit 33MHz PCI bus has a maximum bandwidth of
133MBps == 1Gbps. a DS3 is 45Mbps. even if you pass the data
over the bus 10 times, you're still only using up half the
peak bandwidth.

-w
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