Re: Fewer Modem Cards

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:31:31 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jon Rust wrote:

> It finally occured to me that with a user base of both ISDN and analog
> customers, it's HIGHLY unlikely that all 46 modems (48 for some of us)
> will ever be in use. With this in mind, are there any drawbacks to having
> only, say, 40 modems worth of cards in a PM-3? It will still work, right?
> I mean, it won't turn into a pumpkin or anything will it? :-)

Yes of course it will work.

> But seriously, besides the chance that >40 analog users will all call in
> at one time, with no ISDN callers at all, are there any drawbacks?

I wouldnt bet on that chance unless you KNOW for SURE that many of your
customer base is isdn.

> For example, right now 11 out of 28 ports in use are ISDN calls in 1 of
> my POPs. The other is 5 out of 18.

pretty high percentage.

> I've got months of RADIUS logs stored up, I wonder how tough it would be
> to parse through them and see what the max modem use was at any one
> time...

It would be worth doing.

>
> Thx,
> jon
>

~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~
Jake Messinger 713-772-6690 jake@ams.com
Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. jake@uh.edu
8300 Bissonnet #400
Houston, Texas 77074 http://www.ams.com/~jake
~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~