On Monday 05 September 2005 15:25, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > Wait a month or two.
Until Sangoma's card is in my hot little hands or at a vendor near me, it's vapour. I have a hard time believing that FXS/FXO switchable on every port will be in the final design, but it will be very cool if this is the case. > Ya, but cha-CHING! Sangoma's prices aren't any better on T1/E1/J1... It's priced at what the market will bear. They're cheap compared ot the old stuff, but yeah... still pricey. > Don't forget to reboot once per week, not to mention "give up on > expanding beyond 4 FX ports" . . . Jim, really, this is over the top. I don't reboot any of my asterisk boxes, ever, much less once a week. And I have successfully put two TDM cards in a single box without issue. Yes, Digium's cards are picky about the PCI subsystem; Sangoma's are (much) less so. Regardless, both still do have issue with some (admittedly craptastic) PCI implementations and (again, craptastic) PCI cards they must share the bus with. > Not only that, but if it's quality you're after, custom-built is still > the way to go. Tyan motherboards; Seasonic or FSP power supplies; > Kingston or better RAM; Zalman cooling; Seagate hard drives; a decent > chassis and you'll be into a system that'll deliver far more robustness > than a branded server could deliver at twice the price. A little > engineering pain can deliver outstanding quality, at a price that make > sense. Wow that's a lot of money you just threw at a system that I can match with Asus or even MSI (yikes!), decent, although not brand-name power supplies and RAM and Maxtor or even Fujitsu drives. The only thing I do insist on with my Asterisk boxes is Intel P3 or P4 processors... I've personally had nothing but trouble with AMD, but I haven't spent the time or energy on tracking down exactly what the problem is. That, and use good (Intel) network cards. I bought 100 of them for $0.50ea at a fire sale and they've been amazing. -A.
