[Freeswitch-users] Parallela board - interesting for FreeSWITCH?

[Anthony Minessale]

The balance of doing embedded platforms is always trying to get it done
before traditional x86 catches up to you.
I think at least arm is popular enough that it has dedicated distros and
maintainers so there is a lot more access to legacy tools.



On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Bob Hartwig <bobjects at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use little ARM-based boards like the BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi
> for FreeSWITCH in our lab, and they work great for small setups.  The
> interesting and different thing about the Parallela board is the 16 / 64
> core RISC chip, which is programmable in C and C++.  I can envision
> offloading transcoding and other CPU-intensive tasks to those cores.  Hard
> to say if it will be stable when it's finally released, and I don't know
> enough about that chip to know if it's up to the task.
>
>     Bob
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Francis <sms at icefire.qza.net.au> wrote:
>
>>  I know that on a VIA Eden with 512mb ram, I could have a few calls going
>> without transcoding and it used 20 to 50% cpu, at 800mhz. I'm guessing that
>> would be somewhere in the ballpark of this board.
>>
>> There's a few of these ARM boards popping up to compete with Raspberry
>> Pi, I was looking at the CubieBoard for around AU$80 on ebay, shipped with
>> a plastic case. For a customer with less than ten extensions, an IVR or two
>> and voicemail, it's a very tempting experiment to try! The only catch I can
>> see is kernel support for your preferred distro. Debian has armhf, don't
>> know about the others. Allwinner, the chip that Cubieboard is based on has
>> some far flung patches in upstream and there's some custom firmware images
>> at linux-sunxi.org. I was _almost_ on the button to buy one, but I
>> scored 15  T5745 thin clients with Atom N280/1GB ram for $30 each, so I
>> shelved the idea for the time being.
>>
>> Which brings me to another question: Is it really worth the fiddling
>> around, when I can import a complete, new Atom/Intel based thin client for
>> around $150, with full kernel and driver support plus expansion
>> capabilities? Maybe in a year or two, We might see fully supported ARM
>> based units with the same support/options for $50. :)
>>
>> Francis
>>
>>
>>
>>  <http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page>
>> On 29/12/2013 9:20 AM, Bob Hartwig wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone here have an opinion on the Parallela board -
>> http://www.adapteva.com/products/parallella/parallella/ - as a platform
>> for FreeSWITCH?  Could it be appropriate for applications that need to be
>> small and inexpensive, but also capable of doing a fair amount of real-time
>> transcoding?
>>
>>      Bob
>>
>>
>>
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