asterisk users - Mar 2006 - Stability of Asterisk with 2 x TDM400P cards (6 analogue lines)

I would like to hear from anyone good or bad as what their experience has
been in recent times with STABILITY of current builds of Asterisk and
drivers for TDM400P.

The sort of configuration is: 6 incoming POTS lines. ie. 2 TDM400P cards.

I am not concerned with: price points, or the advantages or disadvantages of
using POTS vs ISDN technology, but simply RELIABILITY & stability of the
Asterisk system & associated interface hardware and drivers.

Do people need to reboot their systems regularly?

Thanks in advance.


Jared

We ran a system at one site with 2 TDM400's in it to hook up to 8 analog
mobile phone gateways.

Asterisk was much more reliable than the analog phone gateways, but we still
rebooted it once a week.

Running on a dual athlon 1800 we picked up very cheaply.

regards,

Paul Hales
Technical Manager
AsteriskIT
> Jared Davison <jared2@medical-objects.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> I would like to hear from anyone good or bad as what their experience 
> has
> been in recent times with STABILITY of current builds of Asterisk and
> drivers for TDM400P.
> 
> The sort of configuration is: 6 incoming POTS lines. ie. 2 TDM400P 
> cards.
> 
> I am not concerned with: price points, or the advantages or 
> disadvantages of
> using POTS vs ISDN technology, but simply RELIABILITY & stability of
the
> Asterisk system & associated interface hardware and drivers.
> 
> Do people need to reboot their systems regularly?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Jared
> 
> 
> 
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I am currently running asterisk 1.0.9 on a system with 2 TDM400P...  I
have had fairly good success with it across the board... my only issue
is that I have monkeys who move stuff around and things get unplugged ;)

Jared Davison wrote:
> I would like to hear from anyone good or bad as what their
> experience has been in recent times with STABILITY of current
> builds of Asterisk and drivers for TDM400P.
>
> The sort of configuration is: 6 incoming POTS lines. ie. 2 TDM400P
> cards.
>
> I am not concerned with: price points, or the advantages or
> disadvantages of using POTS vs ISDN technology, but simply
> RELIABILITY & stability of the Asterisk system & associated
> interface hardware and drivers.
>
> Do people need to reboot their systems regularly?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Jared
>
>
>
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Jared Davison wrote:
> I would like to hear from anyone good or bad as what their experience has
> been in recent times with STABILITY of current builds of Asterisk and
> drivers for TDM400P.
> 
> The sort of configuration is: 6 incoming POTS lines. ie. 2 TDM400P cards.
> 
> I am not concerned with: price points, or the advantages or disadvantages
of
> using POTS vs ISDN technology, but simply RELIABILITY & stability of
the
> Asterisk system & associated interface hardware and drivers.
> 
> Do people need to reboot their systems regularly?
There are a number of folks that have reported using two TDM400's 
reliably, and a few that have indicated three working.

One of the primary issues with using either two or three cards is 
finding a motherboard that allows the two cards to use different 
interrupts (to avoid shared interrupt issues).  A second motherboard 
issue tends to be oriented around motherboards (mostly older ones now) 
that have a poor pci implementation (eg, north/south bridge chips on the 
motherboard).

Alternatives to two TDM400's include using the TDM2400 or Sangoma A200D 
where only a single pci slot is used for 1 to 24 fxo's and/or fxs's.

As of this moment, I have a single (low volume) system with both a 
TDM04b and A200D installed which will be used to compare the cards and 
provide a eval document addressing the advantages and disadvantages of 
each in certain production environments. The TDM2400 will be included in 
the mix when all the necessary cables and components are here.

Hi,

Jump to a TDM2402E for 6 POTS lines with hardware echocan.
Only one IRQ used, and easy future extensions by adding modules.

Best Regards,
Francois BERGERET,
France.

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Objet : [Asterisk-Users] Stability of Asterisk with 2 x TDM400P cards
(6analogue lines)



I would like to hear from anyone good or bad as what their experience has
been in recent times with STABILITY of current builds of Asterisk and
drivers for TDM400P.

The sort of configuration is: 6 incoming POTS lines. ie. 2 TDM400P cards.

I am not concerned with: price points, or the advantages or disadvantages of
using POTS vs ISDN technology, but simply RELIABILITY & stability of the
Asterisk system & associated interface hardware and drivers.

Do people need to reboot their systems regularly?

Thanks in advance.


Jared



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f6hqz-m@hamwlan.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jump to a TDM2402E for 6 POTS lines with hardware echocan.
> Only one IRQ used, and easy future extensions by adding modules.
>   
Have anyone here used a clone i.e.  A1200P-01 (A1200P + 1 FXO100 module) ?

I have a client with an installation with 3 TDM400P cards.  6 FXO, 6FXS 
ports.

I followed the txgain/rxgain instructions and now have no echo 
problems.  The only problem I have now is the flaky network the SIP 
phones are accessing asterisk with.  (you should see the wiring there, ugh).

It's in a dell p4 desktop system.  I don't recall the model, but I can 
find out when I give them a visit next (or if you'd like lspci output I 
can do that now..)

Mike

Jared Davison wrote:
> I would like to hear from anyone good or bad as what their experience has
> been in recent times with STABILITY of current builds of Asterisk and
> drivers for TDM400P.
>
> The sort of configuration is: 6 incoming POTS lines. ie. 2 TDM400P cards.
>
> I am not concerned with: price points, or the advantages or disadvantages
of
> using POTS vs ISDN technology, but simply RELIABILITY & stability of
the
> Asterisk system & associated interface hardware and drivers.
>
> Do people need to reboot their systems regularly?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Jared
>
>
>
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