[Asterisk-Users] Performance: Xeon or Opteron?

[Matt]

we are sangoma shop, very good quality and support.

Best Regards

Matt

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anton Krall" <akrall-lists at intruder.com.mx>
To: <radamson at routers.com>; "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion'" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 3:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Performance: Xeon or Opteron?


> Well certainly sangoma cards are worth looking into now that they also
offer
> analog port cards, anybody knows if there is a reseller in Mexico?
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> |[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> |Rich Adamson
> |Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:09 AM
> |To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> |Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Performance: Xeon or Opteron?
> |
> |I'd have to guess that combination of cards with almost any
> |mobo would be considered an overloaded system. If you replaced
> |the two TDM04b cards with an A200D or TDM2400 card, most of
> |those irqmisses (etc) would probably go away; but that's a
> |somewhat educated guess on my part.
> |
> |Factually, the sangoma cards integrate with the pci bus in a
> |much more stable/usable way then does the digium TDM card (and
> |I believe the te110 if it uses the TigerJet pci chip).
> |
> |
> |Anton Krall wrote:
> |> My main concerns would be, can you have multiple cards like
> |this on a
> |> system, for example, I now have a te110p and 2 tdm04b and Im getting
> |> irqmisses on the te110p (according to zttool and zttest) which makes
> |> fax receiving on the te110p almost impossible.. Plus, voice
> |is getting
> |> frame slips.
> |>
> |> I was hoping sangoma cards could be more "enterprise" friendly.
> |>
> |> |-----Original Message-----
> |> |From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> |> |[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John
> |> |Novack
> |> |Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:57 PM
> |> |To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> |> |Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Performance: Xeon or Opteron?
> |> |
> |> |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)?
> |> |>
> |> |>
> |> |>
> |> |>|-----Original Message-----
> |> |>|
> |> |>|Rich Adamson wrote:
> |> |>|
> |> |>|>
> |> |>|> 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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