Hi! > Thanks for the input. Has someone in this ng tried a PCI card and then > an appliance of the same grade, and could provide some feedback?
Yes, and IMHO the external gateway/appliance is usually - but not always (see fax) - the better choice because you save yourself many headaches caused by all kinds of upgrades: kernel, OS/distribution, Asterisk version, card firmware, and then there's also the mainboard compatibility issue). Search this list for "dahdi" and "zaptel" and you'll see what I mean. In fact for Digium it wouldn't be a dumb move to start offering gateways. PCI cards can keep you from doing an upgrade and might even cause you to create a separate Gateway Asterisk box that you won't touch and an Application Asterisk box that only speaks SIP to the outside. Even though an external gateway is a single point of failure it can be much more easily be shared by more than one Asterisk (in the case of a PCI card you might even have to keep a spare one on the shelf). Philipp -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
