[asterisk-users] Quality problems with ISDN PRI

[Steve Totaro]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
>  > There are much better solutions than doing a RAM drive.  While it may
>  > be stable (not in my experience, I advise using different servers for
>  > different tasks (with redundancy obviously).  A phone switch should be
>  > just that, a recording server should also be just that (in demanding
>  > environments).
>
>  That would be fine, if Asterisk was capable of buffering recording
>  writes, but I'm told it's not; the I/O involved in getting that
>  recording data off the box in real time is probably worse than that of
>  putting it onto disk -- disks are usually higher bandwidth channels
>  than network adapters.
>
>  For permanent storage, certainly, the recordings should be moved to
>  another box, and that's how we do it here.
>
>  Cheers,
>  -- jr '44 byte chunks. Is someone an ATM fan?' a
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Well in the real world, your hypothesis has been proven wrong.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro