On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:38:17 -0500, "James Sneeringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:45 AM, C F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, in the beginning you asked because you don't have the experience > > so folks like myself that do have the experience answered. It might > > work for you, no one knows and you THINK it will work, it's a hit and > > miss, stability is huge issue, thats where experience comes in. If you > > want something that I or the other people here just think works, then > > just get an ATA. If you want something we have experienced and know > > that it works, then get a channel bank.
I'd like to draw on your experience. At one point you mentioned that the fax stability goes from perfect to "anybody's guess" when the call leaves the PRI card. I think I understand the underlying architecture well enough to know why this is the case. Here's the question: In an installation where there are only Analog Telco drops, can pri/channel bank reliability be achieved on analog cards by keeping fax traffic *within* a single Digium TDM card *because* of the fact that card would not be subject to the limitations of the PCI/PCX interface bus and/or underlying OS? For example 4 analog fax lines into (and out of) a single TDM800--4 telco lines to 4 FXO, 4 fax machines from 4 FXS). Do you have any practical or theoretical knowledge as to whether similar reliability to the PRI/Channel-bank setup can be achieved PROVIDED that traffic is never allowed to leave the internals of the card. Depending on how ZAP services the card, there may be exactly ZERO difference between the aforementioned setup and one involving multiple SEPARATE cards. If traffic stays within the card, where (if anywhere) does the process becomes compromised? Certainly it would be trivial to design a card that could handle fax pass-through, so the logical conclusion seems to be that NOT having done so was done to achieve a GREATER good in a mutually exclusive design trade-off. I'm sure that I (and others) would be very interested to gain a better understanding of this if you (or anyone) can speak intelligently to it. Thanks -Karl _______________________________________________ -- 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
