On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:06:58PM -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Keep in mind that even if you use 4 E1 circuits with the card, the total > bandwidth consumption of card is approximately 1 megabyte per second (4 > times 2 megabits per second), which is drastically below the PCI bus > bandwidth of 132 megabytes per second (33 MHz bus with 32-bit > transfers). No quad-T1/E1 card will ever be able to saturate a PCI bus, > especially not PCI-X or PCI-E.
Though, depending on the design of the card and drivers, interrupts/sec may be an issue -- sometimes a deciding issue. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
