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. :)
FrancisDoes 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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