[asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

[Steve Totaro]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:14:57AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>  > >    http://www.voipon.co.uk/xorcom-astribank32-32-fxs-channel-bank-p-530.html
>  > >
>  > > Trouble is, you'll need 7 32-port units to cover your needs and I'm not
>  > > sure if USB2 is up to driving that many ... Tzafrir?
>  >
>  > One USB connector can take a number close to that easily. But even if
>  > USB were the bottleneck, you would just add another USB controller in
>  > the form of PCI card and get extra bandwidth.
>
>  Is there any reason you'd want to do that on a system of that scale
>  instead of just using Ethernetted FXS boxes on a dedicated 100Base?
>
>  Even if you didn't want to use reinvite, seems you'd still win just
>  from the less expensive host interface (I can't understand people using
>  T-1 interfaces for FXS channels either, honestly, in the current
>  environment).
>
>
>  Cheers,
>  -- jra
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http://www.quintum.com/enterprise/en_productdetail.html?id=19

48 Port, you cannot go wrong although, you are going to pay a bit,
well worth it.  Besides, breaking it down per port makes it a little
more palatable.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro