[Asterisk-Users] Port density: DS3 cards?

[Adam Hart]

> 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.
>
According to his logic, my 100mbit network card shouldn't be working to
capacity :)