On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:09 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 6:39 PM > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] pc > > > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 18:07 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote: > > > I'm going to install asterisk with four digium cards. > > > Can anyone mention a brand that carries boards with 4 compatible pci > > > slots? > > > > What 4 cards are you thinking of installing? Most people seem to run > > into trouble after the second concurrent card. > > > I was thinking one 4 port FXO card > Two 4 port FXS card > And the fourth with one FXO and three FXs > For a total of 11 FXSs and 5 FXOs (for five POTS lines and 11 analog > extensions).
You would be far better off going with a channel bank and T1 card. Immediately you get room for expansion as you won't be limited to just 16 ports. As for cost, 4x $305(I think that is the current price) = $1220, $1220 - $500(t100P) = $720, or enough left over to get taken on parts from ebay a couple of times before you reach level costs. > What trouble should I run into? > Define trouble? Hard to configure, or impossible because of IRQ sharing > issues or whatever? Trouble being 4 x 1000 interupts per second on the machine. Lack of expansion, interupt sharing, any number of annoyances. > > > > Anyways, almost all motherboards put 4 PCI slots on the board as it is > > not much extra and expected on anything non entry level. > > I thought so. Apparently most of them only come with three. > I was hoping to locate a motherboard that has five so I'll have room to > expand, but four will be great. > > Anybody knows if PCI express technology is compatible with Wildcards? -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ 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
