[Asterisk-Users] E3 PCI Cards

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:19:14 -0700, Steven P. Donegan <steve at donegan.org> wrote:
> I kind of doubt any one PC can handle more than a quad T1/E1 amount of
> CODEC work. Any one out there seen anything beyound 4 T/E1's?

John Todd and I had a discussion about that recently. We were looking
at non x86 alternatives mainly because of IRQ issues but found that
there should be gains in terms of performance as well.

For example, we speculated that the new IBM eServer OP720 (a 4U
server) should be able to handle more than a single T1, especially the
4 way model.

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/openpower/hardware/720.html

Another promising candidate is Apple's dual G5 (PPC970) Xserve (a 1U server).

http://www.apple.com/xserve

this one looks as if it might beat the price/performance ratio of a
high end Intel server.

Both systems run LinuxPPC.

We thought Apple and IBM should be eager to do some Asterisk load
testing on their systems and that we would love to have the spare time
to "put this idea into their heads" as John put it.

rgds
benjk

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