[Freeswitch-users] Sangoma Cards or FXS gateway for high port density setup (~ 160 fxs)

[guru singh]

Yes it is a hotel install. Not that I'm hooking up one, but I met
somebody who's a 'system architect' and has been putting proprietary
systems for clients for a while. He got interested and asked me for a
hardware sizing so to speak, if I was to do it my way.
For HA, having a standby machine seems more than sufficient. For ~160
fxs, I think  gateways (Audiocodes MP124?) would be a better idea.
It'll save me doing the transcoding on the FS box as well. I hear the
MP124 is a beast to configure, but works just fine.

-guru

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> What is the application for 160 FXS ports? Are you hooking up a hotel or
> something? I would think the application would determine what level of HA
> you need. In some cases having a warm standby on site would be sufficient.
> In the case of a failure of box 1 you could have someone go to the switch
> room and fire up box 2. This works in cases where a minute or two of
> downtime would be inconvenient but not a show-stopper.
> -MC
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:25 AM, guru singh <grsingh750 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> What would you recommend for a solution that requires ~160 fxs ports?
>> Should I get a Sangoma A200, in fact 7 of them and put them on to my
>> server or look for other products like Audiocodes/Patton fxs gateways
>> etc?
>> If I choose Sangoma cards, then I don't think I can set up a HA
>> scenario since, all fxs ports will be on the FS box itself.
>> But from what I've read people have horrible things to say about most
>> gateway devices. They are prone to failure and the support is also
>> very lax.
>> So what good would be HA anyway, if one of these gateways fails and
>> knocks 32 fxs ports off!
>> Also I see that Sangoma is actively involved with the FreeSwitch
>> project and digging through the mailing lists, I could see great
>> support as well.
>> Is it advisable to have 6-7 cards with 12 fxs modules each on my FS
>> server?
>>
>> Any suggestions/pointers/heads-up would be really appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> guru
>>
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