[Freeswitch-users] G.729 transcoder licensing

[Ken Rice]

You can do this with late negotiation I would guess.... Would probably
require some dialplan magic



On 6/13/13 12:01 PM, "Alex Lake" <alex at digitalmail.com> wrote:

>    
> Good point. It would be great if I could have (say) up to 30 G729 sessions,
> and beyond that it "failed over" to G711.
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>> If you are running a high traffic system, be careful and check CPU
>> utilization, as another 50 transcoding sessions might put you into dangerous
>> territory.  Digium or Sangoma are you friends in that case.  Their boards
>> take a lot of load off a high traffic system. What I don't know is if both
>> technologies can coexist in one system (120 transcoding sessions from a
>> Digium board + XX soft licenses)  how would it decide which to use first?
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>> Guillermo
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>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Alex Lake <alex at digitalmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Well, I will be able to now. ;-)
>>>  It just seems that it might be more sensible, when out of licenses, to
>>>  at least offer the prospect of a call using an alternative codec.
>>>  Sometimes it's hard to predict how many licenses are required.
>>>  
>>>  
>>>> > Why can't you detect that now? You should be able to detect that you are
>>>> at
>>>>  > or near the upper limit in the dialplan via API in a chan var and go
>>>> from
>>>>  > there... If you are constantly running out of licenses you probably
>>>> don't
>>>>  > have enough
>>>>  >
>>>>  >
>>>>  > On 6/13/13 5:27 AM, "Alex Lake" <alex at digitalmail.com> wrote:
>>>>  >
>>>>>  >> Thanks
>>>>>>  >>> If the channel picks G729 then finds there's no license available
when
>>>>>>  >>> (if) it goes to transcode the call will fail and hang up.
>>>>>>  >>>
>>>>>  >> That's a shame. I wonder what ways around that might be. Presumably
one
>>>>>  >> can work out how many are in use, and if it's at or near the max, one
>>>>>  >> could possibly dynamically change the config and reload the
>>>>> appropriate
>>>>>  >> bit (presumably a reloadxml wouldn't be the right bit).
>>>>>  >>
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