Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On April 12, 2005 11:36 pm, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Also, keep in mind that a DS3 is _only_ 45 megabits per second. Any PCI bus (even lowly 33MHz 32-bit PCI) can easily handle 90 megabits per Yes, but then what are you doing with it? You're shuttling the new data to/from a network card in a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Matt Klein wrote: Kevin, Mmm. Yep. -m On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Matthew Boehm wrote: So, no hardware encoding on this beast? The announcement on the website makes no mention of transcoding, echo cancellation or toast-and-jam making, so at this time, no, there is no

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Yes, but then what are you doing with it? You're shuttling the new data to/from a network card in a lot of cases. Combined with other traffic over the PCI bus for normal system operation I could see you coming close to the limitations of regular ole PCI. Absolutely.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Steve Underwood wrote: Since encoding typically requires 5 times as much compute as decoding, for CELP based codecs, an encode onyl board would not be as dumb as it seems at first sight :-) Hah! I knew someone would say that! ___ Asterisk-Users mailing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On April 13, 2005 10:57 am, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Very true; realistically, modern PC hardware has more than enough bandwidth to do what is required. The real issue is timing, based on contention for resources, and how that impacts latency. The existing boxes out there (not PCs) that handle

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Yes, but then what are you doing with it? You're shuttling the new data to/from a network card in a lot of cases. Combined with other traffic over the PCI bus for normal system operation I could see you coming close to the limitations of regular

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Latham
It means something to me. Kevin I am far from needing one of these yet but I am interested in them. I think that clearing up who does the transcoding would help some people. I wonder if someone will use this for large scale network needs. Image Stream is just down the Highway from me and I know

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-13 Thread tmassey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/12/2005 11:36:47 PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, a PCI-based co-processor would double the PCI bus bandwidth necessary. And with a latency-sensitive product like voice, bus contention is not something you want to add to! :) It only

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Andres wrote: Can you confirm if there will be some sort of DSP daughther card add on of some sort for the DS3000 so that we can run G729 transcoding? I don't see how the DS3 interface would be usefull unless we could offload transcoding stuff to onboard DSPs. Or is Digium only going to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: secondary card for DSP functions is very inefficient of the PCI bus. I'd be curious to know if the Digium cards can even do PCI-PCI DMA. The Digium TDM cards can DMA into any RAM accessible over the PCI bus, regardless of whether it is located on the motherboard or on a

RE: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Bicom Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andres wrote: Can you confirm if there will be some sort of DSP daughther card add on of some sort for the DS3000 so that we can run G729 transcoding? I don't see how the DS3 interface would be usefull unless we could offload transcoding stuff to onboard DSPs. Or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Bicom Systems wrote: What is target release date for DS3000P? That has not been announced; sometime after today would be a safe assumption :-) ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread tmassey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/12/2005 10:51:49 AM: Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: secondary card for DSP functions is very inefficient of the PCI bus. I'd be curious to know if the Digium cards can even do PCI-PCI DMA. The Digium TDM cards can DMA into any RAM accessible over the PCI bus,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Jon Bebeau
PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/12/2005 10:51:49 AM: Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: secondary card for DSP functions is very inefficient of the PCI bus. I'd be curious to know if the Digium cards can even do PCI-PCI DMA

RE: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Bicom Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bicom Systems wrote: What is target release date for DS3000P? That has not been announced; sometime after today would be a safe assumption :-) Sure thing... In any case as you wrote sometime after today we all should know :-) Ta Senad

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Matthew Boehm
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Andres wrote: Can you confirm if there will be some sort of DSP daughther card add on of some sort for the DS3000 so that we can run G729 transcoding? I don't see how the DS3 interface would be usefull unless we could offload transcoding stuff to onboard DSPs. Or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, a PCI-based co-processor would double the PCI bus bandwidth necessary. And with a latency-sensitive product like voice, bus contention is not something you want to add to! :) It only 'doubles the bandwidth required' when compared to a single-board

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Boehm wrote: So, no hardware encoding on this beast? The announcement on the website makes no mention of transcoding, echo cancellation or toast-and-jam making, so at this time, no, there is no hardware transcoding apparently included. (Besides, would you really want a board that could

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Matt Klein
Kevin, Keep in mind that according to Wiki there are no DSP's on the board. -m On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, a PCI-based co-processor would double the PCI bus bandwidth necessary. And with a latency-sensitive product like voice,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-12 Thread Matt Klein
Kevin, Mmm. Yep. -m On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Matthew Boehm wrote: So, no hardware encoding on this beast? The announcement on the website makes no mention of transcoding, echo cancellation or toast-and-jam making, so at this time, no, there is no hardware transcoding

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Now they MAY have incorporated the TJ320 chip logic in the Xilinx Spartan II FPGA but I would be **VERY** surprised if they did that. Just my opinion, but I think that level 2 digium tech is full of shit. Andrew is correct; there are no TigerJet parts on the quad-span

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Remco Barende wrote: like it says, the equivalent of 20 E1's or 28 T1's and I guess you know how many channels a E1 or T1 PRI is That is correct; the DS3000P will support full access to every channel on the DS-3 (or E-3), however it is provisioned. In a T1-RBS signaling mode, that means 672

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Andres
Andrew is correct; there are no TigerJet parts on the quad-span cards. There will also not be any TigerJet parts on the DS3000P card, as they don't make anything that would be useful there :-) Kevin, Can you confirm if there will be some sort of DSP daughther card add on of some sort for the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Boehm
Andres wrote: Andrew is correct; there are no TigerJet parts on the quad-span cards. There will also not be any TigerJet parts on the DS3000P card, as they don't make anything that would be useful there :-) Kevin, Can you confirm if there will be some sort of DSP daughther card add on of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On April 11, 2005 03:17 pm, Andres wrote: Can you confirm if there will be some sort of DSP daughther card add on of some sort for the DS3000 so that we can run G729 transcoding? I don't see how the DS3 interface would be usefull unless we could offload transcoding stuff to onboard DSPs. Or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Andres
(Note, I do not work for nor speak for Digium.) G711 only; if you want transcode do that on a cluster of boxes feeding the box with this card in it. -A. Or wait another 10 generations of Pentium Processors to catch up with DS3 G729 requirements :) -- Andres Network Admin

RE: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Bicom Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On April 11, 2005 03:17 pm, Andres wrote: Can you confirm if there will be some sort of DSP daughther card add on of some sort for the DS3000 so that we can run G729 transcoding? I don't see how the DS3 interface would be usefull unless we could offload transcoding

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Crocker
Come June/July an USB/PCI DSP cost effective solution should be available to address this issues. It will transcode nearly all codec's. I am not in position to reveal the company name at this stage unless MN wants to speak up :) Put me on the mailing list for the PCI DSP card, I'll beta test if

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On April 11, 2005 06:43 pm, Bicom Systems wrote: Come June/July an USB/PCI DSP cost effective solution should be available to address this issues. It will transcode nearly all codec's. I am not in position to reveal the company name at this stage unless MN wants to speak up :) secondary card

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-10 Thread Matthew Boehm
On April 9, 2005 08:25 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: Which specific Digium card does not use the TigerJet chip (as shown in lspci)? TE405P: 05:03.0 Communication controller: Xilinx Corporation: Unknown device 0314 (rev 01) I imagine the TE410 and TE110 are both also similarly lspci'd. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On April 10, 2005 12:01 pm, Matthew Boehm wrote: I have a TE405P and mine shows up as Xilinx but a lvl 2 tech a digium says it still uses the TigerJet chipset. That's why it won't work in my Dell. I'll paypal you US$100 if you can find a TJ320 chip on either the TE410P or TE405P. It doesn't

[Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-09 Thread izo
I just checked digium's site. Looks like next big thing is coming to town DS3 on single card. Would be nice to know how many channels it can handle. Anybody had his hands on this card or knows some details ? regards m. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-09 Thread Eric Wieling
izo wrote: I just checked digium's site. Looks like next big thing is coming to town DS3 on single card. Would be nice to know how many channels it can handle. Anybody had his hands on this card or knows some details ? Please God, if you can hear me, don't let them use a TigerJet chipet. --

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-09 Thread Remco Barende
like it says, the equivalent of 20 E1's or 28 T1's and I guess you know how many channels a E1 or T1 PRI is On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, izo wrote: I just checked digium's site. Looks like next big thing is coming to town DS3 on single card. Would be nice to know how many channels it can handle. Anybody

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-09 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On April 9, 2005 02:13 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: izo wrote: I just checked digium's site. Looks like next big thing is coming to town DS3 on single card. Would be nice to know how many channels it can handle. Anybody had his hands on this card or knows some details ? Please God, if you can

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-09 Thread Eric Wieling
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On April 9, 2005 02:13 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: izo wrote: I just checked digium's site. Looks like next big thing is coming to town DS3 on single card. Would be nice to know how many channels it can handle. Anybody had his hands on this card or knows some details ? Please

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-09 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On April 9, 2005 08:25 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: Which specific Digium card does not use the TigerJet chip (as shown in lspci)? TE405P: 05:03.0 Communication controller: Xilinx Corporation: Unknown device 0314 (rev 01) I imagine the TE410 and TE110 are both also similarly lspci'd. -A.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

2005-04-09 Thread Eric Wieling
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On April 9, 2005 08:25 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: Which specific Digium card does not use the TigerJet chip (as shown in lspci)? TE405P: 05:03.0 Communication controller: Xilinx Corporation: Unknown device 0314 (rev 01) I imagine the TE410 and TE110 are both also similarly