[Asterisk-Users] Performance: Xeon or Opteron?

[John Novack]

Have a 2FXO 2FXS card working now.
More forgiving of the PCI bus. The software installation is a little 
mean, with the outlined procedure making assumptions about the 
installers knowledge and familiarity with Sangoma products, and in some 
places it doesn't really discriminate between their T1 and A200 cards.
I found one defect in their FXS driver, which they have now fixed.

Overall seems to be a good product, slightly more affordable and less of 
a problem child than the Digium/TigerJet TDM400

John Novack

Anton Krall wrote:

>Has anybody used the sangoma fxo cards with asterisk? Anybody using multiple
>cards? Problems with irq and such (same as with digium ones)?
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>|From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
>|[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
>|John Novack
>|Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:29 AM
>|To: radamson at routers.com
>|Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>|Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Performance: Xeon or Opteron?
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>|Rich Adamson wrote:
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>|>
>|> While talking with one of the sangoma folks very recently, he was 
>|> rather emphatic the pci bus was designed to "share" 
>|interrupts. I was 
>|> a little concerned as a test server had the wanpipe driver 
>|sharing an 
>|> interrupt with libata and uhc1_hcd. His comment was "that's the way 
>|> its suppose to work, sharing interrupts as needed". I've not had any 
>|> recognizable issues with the A200D card at all, and faxing 
>|via a A200D 
>|> fxs port to a A200D fxo (pstn) port functions 100% reliably.
>|>
>|> What that would suggest is the TDM400 pci firmware (whether on card 
>|> logic or whatever) is the source of at least part of the 
>|TDM400 shared 
>|> interrupt issue. I don't have any digium T1/E1 cards laying around, 
>|> but if memory serves correctly, the T1/E1 cards do not use the same 
>|> pci controller chip. That would suggest the T1/E1 cards are 
>|less of an 
>|> issue then with the TDM400 card.
>|
>|That's good to know, but considering the response from Digium 
>|on the TDM400 ( try another motherboard) when there didn't 
>|seem to even be an int. sharing issue, the card just couldn't 
>|be seen at all , and the support I received from Sangoma on a 
>|recent FXS issue that was resolved within a few days, I would 
>|tend to go with Sangoma for the T1 card, if and when I have the need.
>|
>|John Novack
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