[Asterisk-Users] DELL PowerEdge 2850 and TE4110P and TE110P

[Remco Barendse]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, whois wes wrote:

> Sorry I'm late, just joined the list.
>
> We have 400 seats spread across 8 Dell 2805's, and were running TE410P's in
> all of them.  After six months of troubleshooting call drops, static, and
> random server lockups, we moved 4 of the servers to Sangoma A104d's last
> week.  The problems we were having have basically disappeared.
>
> Keep in mind, this is after trying PCI based NIC's and ensuring there were
> NO IRQ's being shared, messing with APIC, ACPI, irq latency, and a host of
> other settings - NOTHING seemed to help, until we dropped the Sangoma in and
> installed the drivers.  It's been smooth sailing since.

Thanks for your input. I preferred to buy the Digium card to support the 
Asterisk project.  To say the least I'm not very impressed with the 2850 
but I must say that with the right kernel parameters the box has been in 
production since May 1st and I have not have not had any problems or 
lockups yet. The 2850 has a TE210P installed but call volume is very low, 
only incoming on one PRI connection maybe 5-8 simultaneous channels and on 
the second port max 2 channels in bridged mode for fax. (Soon to be 
replaced with iaxmodem+hylafax)

Cheers!
Remco