[Asterisk-Users] Port density: DS3 cards?

[Bob Knight]

Steve Dolloff wrote:

>I would be seriously wary of putting a DS3's worth of voice traffic on a
>TNT.  I don't believe they are rated to handle that much voice.  The
>APX1000 would be a much better platform, but I don't know if you can
>find one used.
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>Stephen 
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Skip the TNT's.  They are really a joke.
I will admit, I am a bitter X-Livingston employee.
First Lucent bought us for our cool gear, then they bought
Ascend for sales and marketing......
I still can't believe they kept the TNT alive and killed PM4.

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ernest W. Lessenger [mailto:ernest at oacys.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:51 PM
>>To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Port density: DS3 cards?
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>>At 02:34 PM 12/4/2003, you wrote:
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>>>However, considering the traffic volumes that you are talking about,
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>is
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>>it
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>>>really true to say that the traditional telco cards are
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>astronomically
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>>>priced, given the amount of revenue that can be generated per month
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>on a
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>>>DS3?
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>>Eight quad-span T-1 cards from Digium: $8,970
>>Three reasonable-quality asterisk servers: $1,000
>>One T-1/DS-3 MUX: $5000
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>>Total system cost: $14,970
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>>That actually sounds quite reasonable to me. However, if I were doing
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>this
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>>myself I would look hard at getting a MAX TNT with VoIP capability off
>>eBay. The price would be equivalent or less, the interface would be
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>more
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>>complicated, but all the DSP would be done by the MAX.
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>>--Ernest
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