<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div> Bob</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Francis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sms@icefire.qza.net.au" target="_blank">sms@icefire.qza.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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
<a href="http://linux-sunxi.org" target="_blank">linux-sunxi.org</a>. 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.<br>
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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. :)<br>
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Francis<div class="im"><br>
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<div>On 29/12/2013 9:20 AM, Bob Hartwig
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<div dir="ltr">Does anyone here have an opinion on the Parallela
board - <a href="http://www.adapteva.com/products/parallella/parallella/" target="_blank">http://www.adapteva.com/products/parallella/parallella/</a>
- 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?
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