[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7750

[Mark Johnson]

Trey Scarborough wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Johnson" 
> <asterisk at astroshapes.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:56 AM
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7750
>
>
>> I have read of people attempting to do this, and I just wanted 
>> everyone to know about what we've discovered about the Cisco 7750.  
>> If you don't know what it is, it's basically a blade server.  I have 
>> 1 power blade, 1 alarm processor, 2 system processing engines and 1 
>> multi-service route processor. We just got asterisk running on this 
>> today!!!
>
>
> Just dont let cisco know
>
>> We haven't tested the T1 with it, yet, but I pretty sure it will work 
>> OK. All of the FX ports work beautifully right now.  The big deal 
>> about this for me is that I  have battled over and over again with 
>> interrupt issues with Digium hardware.  This is sweet because all the 
>> T1 processing including echo cancellation should be done on the route 
>> processor. Asterisk doesn't have to do much of anything.
>>
>
> so im guessing that all of the t1/fx ports are configured in the 
> system processor and just talk sip/mgcp to the route proccessor.
>
> That sounds like a pretty sweet setup If you could only get cisco to 
> sell you the hardware without having to buy the software.

I'm seeing that these things are on E-Bay pretty often.  They still want 
way too much money for what it is.  But if you where trying to get away 
from Call Manger and already owned one...

Mark