<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Michael Giagnocavo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mgg@giagnocavo.net">mgg@giagnocavo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
$22K would buy quite a few machines with many core Xeons. I just don't see how it'd be effective at that price. Not to mention a yearly figure.</blockquote><div><br>G729 is roughly 25 MIPS (encode+decode), coppice, please correct as necessary.<br>
A dual quad-core xeon 3 ghz should do roughly 1k calls, assuming nothing else is being run.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The only thing to take into consideration would be the G729 licenses. But in bulk, the price should be pretty effective, even figuring in hardware.</blockquote><div><br>Or places where licensing isn't enforced, like offshore g729 farms :)<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(Not to mention what things like Larrabee will mean for encoding -- 32 1.5GHz "Pentium 4 x64" cores, each with 4 threads?)</blockquote>
<div><br>32 x 1.5 GHZ = 48 Ghz or roughly 2000 channels ...<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And... if you're running Asterisk, um, isn't 5000 channels a wee bit over what you can handle anyways? ;)</blockquote>
<div><br>Yeh, but not when you have FS :)<br><br>which is why talks of this capacity on HMP are becoming more and more relevant ...<br></div></div><br>-- <br>wasim h. baig | principal consultant | convergence pk | +92 300 8508070 | peace be upon you ...<br>