So, is that 18th (wide) slot usable or is that actually some of the
needed HW for the chassis?
>They are building a 16 modem/isdn card. 16*14 is 224. Guess if they
>somehow had 15 slots you'd have 240. We haven't actually seen the 16
>modem card yet, but they say 'real soon now'. Gotta see it first :)
How does that work? 16 modems on a card - but what about the PRI cards?
Ok. 17 slots, minus NetServer PRI card, minus Network Management Card.
15 slots. Put in 4 dual PRI cards - 192 lines. 11 slots. But that
needs 12 slots for 192 modems. You are 16 short... 3 dual PRI cards -
144 lines, 12 slots. Need 9 slots for modems. Leaving 3. Ok... Or
do these new cards remove the need for the NetServer PRI card and/or the
Network Management Card? Well, for Europe with 3 dual cards you have 180
lines and 12 slots. Which is perfect since you need 11.25 modem cards which
means 12. Maybe that is their plan.
>Their ISDN only solution is really compact though. If you just add in
>PRI cards you can have several hundred ISDN lines. Not bad. If only
Well, it looks like you have a limit of 5 dual cards, even if you
have open slots all the docs indicate 10 PRIs is the max. Actually,
that is T1. They aren't clear on if the 240 is the hard limit or if the
10 PRIs is the hard limit. Because that could mean 300 lines in Europe,
or it could mean 240 with a limit of 4 cards.
>of our 20+ pops with. The USR rack sofar hasn't impressed us yet.
>Cisco 5200 is next. I hope the PM3 comes out before we have to make
The Cisco 5200 doesn't use digital modems you know.
-MZ
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