asterisk users - Feb 2004 - Motherboard and fxo suggestion.

What is the very best motherboard I should use to set up my new asterisk 
box?
I plan on installing about 8 pots lines.

And is X100P the only card available? I'm looking for multiple pots line 
cards.

I'm trying to avoid irq conflicts as well as have a superstable box.

Thanks
George

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> 
> What is the very best motherboard I should use to set up my 
> new asterisk 
> box?
> I plan on installing about 8 pots lines.
Assuming US, since your email address has a state in the domain. There are
other options for EURO ISDN countries.

8 is a lot for POTS lines, if your Telco can give you a fractional T1 for
the same or a little bit more, you will be much better off, digital call
handling, one T100P card ($595?) instead of 8 X100Ps ($792?).
> And is X100P the only card available? I'm looking for 
> multiple pots line 
> cards.
If T1 isn't an option, move :-)
If moving isn't an option...

Digium has a 4 FXO card in the works, if you can wait a bit (several weeks?,
few months?)
Voicetronix Openline4 + Openswitch6/12 have Asterisk channel drivers
(chan_vpb), don't know what features are missing.
Various hardware boxes handle FXO->SIP (Mediatrix?)
> I'm trying to avoid irq conflicts as well as have a superstable box.
The advantage of digital over POTS is that Asterisk is signalled when events
happen (remote end pickup/hangup busy/ringing) rather than trying to work it
out from tones/pulses, which is what humans have to do (and are a lot better
at it).

Cheers,
Woody