You can use 2x 2u server with 2 cards each. It'll save on server cost. Having 4 cards in one 3u/4u/tower server will probably work fine with some dual quad core cpu's (8 logical cpu's) but like previously pointed out it's a single point of failure.
Martin On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Matt Florell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/2/09, Steve Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Matt King wrote: >> >> > I've got a requirement to build a 16-port E1 ISDN Asterisk machine (so >> > that's a whopping 480 simultaneous calls). I'm thinking of using 4x >> > TE405P or 4x TE410P to provide the 16 E1 ports required. >> > >> > There is no VoIP requirement at this customer. >> > >> > Does anyone out there have any experience you can share with building >> > and running a system like this? >> >> >> I had a similar requirement about 5 years ago for a 24x7x365 adult chat >> site, except it was for T1s instead of E1s. Back then, the interrupt >> activity from the 4 cards was strongly advised against. I don't think that >> is an issue any more. >> >> When we thought about it, 4 1u pizza boxes with 1 quad card each made more >> sense. The dialplan on these "telco servers" just answered the call and >> dialed the "application server." >> >> If a telco server crashed, we only lost 25% of our capacity. Likewise >> (because we were running at less than 75% of capacity), we could do a >> "rolling upgrade" of the telco servers without any downtime. When we >> wanted to upgrade the application server, we changed the telco server >> dialplan to dial the backup application server. >> >> You may want to take a look at external E1/T1 devices like red-fone.com. > > We have also built a 16 x T1 server, except we used two Sangoma > octal(8) port cards. > > It is doable, but to reiterate what Steve already said, you would be > better off breaking it out into separate servers. > > MATT--- > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
