----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Loftis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:14 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Alternatives to the T100Ps?
| | | --On Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:31 -0400 Brian Kurkowski | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > Michael, | > | > I usually read and don't do much posting, but I had to on this. | | Sorry things getting badly buried lately.... recent reply brought this | thread back to my attention and I realised I'd missed this post. | | > I am really suprised to see your commnets, and wondered what is the basis | > ? We have had a dual Xenon with a quad port T1 card in production for 16 | > months processing as many as 20,000 messaging calls a day. The box has | > never crashed, the board has never crashed, we haven't even restarted | > asterisk much less upgraded the code. I have never take a Bit Error on my | > DMS-500 from a Digium card. This is only one of several "production | > boxes" but the story is the same on all of them. | > | > How in the heck does this equate to: "hardware, drivers, or both is | > pretty sketchy" ? | | The fact that they are REALLY picky on what they work in, and they either | work really well (as in your case) or (as in my example) cause the system | to go totally flake when it's otherwise been known to run excellently in | all situations. Whether it's hardware being picky, drivers being somewhat | bad behavior or something else I'm not sure. The 1kHz clock that they keep | should be easily followed by any modern hardware -- I've built applications | based around faster interrupt rates on less hardware (Intel and AMD based). | | > I would suggest just the opposite. Mark and the boys have done a great job | > on all fronts. How many Cisco AS-5300's have that record ? I have 9 of | > them brand new and not a single one is my answer. | | There's no doubt that Digium brought this card into mass production, | cleaned it up, improved upon it, and have done so steadily since it's | creation. I also have no doubt whatsoever that they will continue to do | so, and very aggressively. We'll probably also start to see more products | coming from them, I have no idea what but they have a lot of smart folks | over there. | | > | > If you haven't looked at Digium lately, look again. | | I've got two of their cards right now :) That's what sparked the whole | thread. | | I don't mind paying more, neither do most businesses, for hardware that's | more solid, or handles a given task better. I suppose with the Digium | boards I could dive into the VHDL and reprogram the FPGA if I find any | problems. I just don't know the current state of all of those bits. | | The PBX we've built seems ot be very stable in it's new motherboard, but | it's still very...curious that it behaved so badly in a known good | motherboard with more than enough horsepower -- 1.4Ghz clock -- AMD Athlon | 1800+, w/ 1.5Gig of RAM, all clean, tested pretty regularly with memtest86 | and other diagnostics as I use it for a bench machine. | | Though I think it more likely had more to do with some unhealthy | interaction on the motherboard and card rather than one or the other, which | seems to be reported occasionally by T100P buyers, and the TDM400P also | seems to have some similar issues. | | Now the fact that there are so many configurations under which the T100P | and TDM400P work VERY well means that the fundamentals are absolutely | right, there's just some sort of edge case. I just happen to be of the | opinion that the real world is an edge case so if you can't handle a fairly | common COTS setup like the system I described above, then there's something | that needs some pretty good improvement somewhere. | | The whole thing is just my opinions and thoughts, and tempered by the | (relatively bad) experience I had getting these cards going because they | just would not play with any motherboard I threw at them until we went for | rather top of the line motherboard. | Michael, are you successfully routing data over the t100p card as well as voice? Greg _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
