[Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On April 13, 2005 10:57 am, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Very true; realistically, modern PC hardware has more than enough
> bandwidth to do what is required. The real issue is timing, based on
> contention for resources, and how that impacts latency. The existing
> boxes out there (not PCs) that handle DS3 have far lower performance
> metrics than a 3GHz P4 or similar system :-)

Well yes, but they're not a general computing platform either and their I/O 
design is quite different.  They could spank any PC in terms of concurrent 
I/O without even breaking a sweat.  :-)

-A.