[Freeswitch-users] MInimal Hardware requirements - G729

[curriegrad2004]

Not to mention at a conference call type of setup, you'd need extra
processing done on the machine that's handling approx. 100 users at
any given time on G729, as I already said above, start considering
with using a hardware transcoding card from sangoma or etc.

As funny as it may seem, your CPU in your box wasn't really designed
to behave or act like a DSP, although Intel tried to :P

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Kristian Kielhofner <kris at kriskinc.com> wrote:
> You're going to pay $1000 for G729 software licenses.
>
> Sangoma cards include the license in the cost of the card and the
> transcoding frees up CPU resources for other things.  I'm not sure of
> the pricing but you can probably get a 100 channel Sangoma card for
> less than you're going to pay in software licenses.
>
> When you start getting in the > 100 channel range you should really,
> really be using a Sangoma card.  There's very little reason not to.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Michele M <mchlmll at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, but again
>> , hardware requirements? (CPU, RAM, etc, etc)
>>
>> 2011/11/28 Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org>
>>>
>>> Keep in Mind that Mod_conference (and anyone elses conference software for
>>> that matter) take everything to slinear for mixing. Unfortunately you cant
>>> mix encoded auto with encoded audio very well.
>>>
>>> So far 100 Channels in a conf bridge, he would require 100 licenses.
>>>
>>> K
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/28/11 9:16 AM, "curriegrad2004" <curriegrad2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > In this case there is no need to purchase any G729 software licenses
>>> at all if
>>> > you are doing all of this in passthrough mode (meaning both
>>> ends are g729
>>> > codecs and FS is just simply passing them through). The
>>> default G729 codec
>>> > that is included with FS is passthrough.
>>>
>>> You could also look into
>>> > this:
>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Proxy_Media or
>>> > this
>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Bypass_Media
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Michele M <mchlmll at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Hi there,
>>> it is my intention to buy 100 g729 sw codecs from FS to setup a
>>> >> meet-me
>>> conference system.Which are the minimal hw requirements to support
>>> >> 100 conference legs where all the codecs implied are G729 ? ( meaning
>>> >> no
>>> >> transcoding from pcmu->G729 and viceversa).
>>> >
>>> > Thx in advance
>>> >
>>> > Michele
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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