[Asterisk-Users] pc

[Shoval Tomer]

Can you recommend a channel bank make and model that will support all
(or most) of Asterisk's features and can be installed by a newbie?

I'll search for it on ebay


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:critch at basesys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:22 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] pc
> 
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:09 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:critch at basesys.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 6:39 PM
> > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] pc
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 18:07 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote:
> > > > I'm going to install asterisk with four digium cards.
> > > > Can anyone mention a brand that carries boards with 4 compatible
pci
> > > > slots?
> > >
> > > What 4 cards are you thinking of installing? Most people seem to
run
> > > into trouble after the second concurrent card.
> >
> >
> > I was thinking one 4 port FXO card
> > Two 4 port FXS card
> > And the fourth with one FXO and three FXs
> > For a total of 11 FXSs and 5 FXOs (for five POTS lines and 11 analog
> > extensions).
> 
> You would be far better off going with a channel bank and T1 card.
> Immediately you get room for expansion as you won't be limited to just
> 16 ports. As for cost, 4x $305(I think that is the current price) =
> $1220, $1220 - $500(t100P) = $720, or enough left over to get taken on
> parts from ebay a couple of times before you reach level costs.
> 
> > What trouble should I run into?
> > Define trouble? Hard to configure, or impossible because of IRQ
sharing
> > issues or whatever?
> 
> Trouble being 4 x 1000 interupts per second on the machine. Lack of
> expansion, interupt sharing, any number of annoyances.
> 
> > >
> > > Anyways, almost all motherboards put 4 PCI slots on the board as
it is
> > > not much extra and expected on anything non entry level.
> >
> > I thought so. Apparently most of them only come with three.
> > I was hoping to locate a motherboard that has five so I'll have room
to
> > expand, but four will be great.
> >
> > Anybody knows if PCI express technology is compatible with
Wildcards?
> 
> --
> Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>
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