On 3 Nov 2005, at 11:36, Chris Bagnall wrote:
I would suggest using a pair of 4-port cards. The interrupts
alone from 5 PCI cards would kill most boxes. There is also
an octo-card, but I have no personal experience of that.
Hmm... the price is something of an obstacle - given that single
BRI cards
can be had for sub-£20, justifying £425 on a 4-port card onto which
there'd
need to be another single BRI anyway might be a challenge.
Are there any other options worth considering here? How about a
board with 2
PCI buses (e.g. one PCI, one PCI-X) ?
I know this isn't what you asked, but, I'd think hard about moving to
PRI instead.
I find that around at around 8 lines it is generally cheaper (and far
easier) to
switch to partial E1. All the UK providers will offer you a free
install on a 10 channel
PRI if you sign up for long enough or commit to enough spend.
You can run a partial E1 on a lowpowered 1U server (1Ghz 512Mb),
so you could save on the hardware bigtime.
Tim.
Regards,
Chris
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