On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:38, Harry McGregor wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 07:57, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > > > Do you really want all those spans going down cause someone > > > tripped over a power cable or your hard drive nukes itself? > > > > You usually don't worry about either of those problems when you've > > got redundant power supplies and drives in the rackmount system in > > a locked room. > > And redundant UPSs as well, two good sized UPSs can really help. As > far as cases go, I like the Bow cases (www.gogobow.com, you can buy > some of them from www.newegg.com). > > > > We only use 2 TE410Ps in our systems and many servers. This way > > > you spread out the load and achieve redundancy at the same time. > > > > What do you use for servers? What's the load like? I wasn't aware > > that PCI could handle 8 full PRIs of traffic. What codecs are you > > using? > > Sure, 8 PRIs are only 8x 1.5megabit x2 (ie all of it going out your > network connection), that is 24 megabit. 33MHz 32Bit PCI can handle > 132 MegaBytes/sec, so the PRIs (doubled) only account for a small > amount of the bandwidth available. Standard 33mhz/32it PCI can > handle routing DS3 and OC3 level bandwidths. I would recommend 33mhz > or 66mhz 64bit PCI if you are going above that.
Unless I'm mistaken, there's another barrier you're going to hit before that: the zaptel drivers have a maximum of 252 channels addressable (each channel gets its own device minor number and 4 device minors are reserved in the driver for other purposes). -Tilghman _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users