$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.

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.

(Not to mention what things like Larrabee will mean for encoding -- 32 1.5GHz "Pentium 4 x64" cores, each with 4 threads?)

And... if you're running Asterisk, um, isn't 5000 channels a wee bit over what you can handle anyways? ;)

-Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Mitul Limbani
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:28 PM
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Transcoding G723

Hi,

I came across a company who was selling hardware which could do like
5000 G729 conversion simultanoeusly, I was like this sounds cool, they
have support for asterisk, I haven't enquirer yet how they do this,
but anyone wishes to buy it cost £15000/year for the hrdware + support

Any one on the list requires such high throughput calls can connect
with me so that we can really test if it can work with freeswitch.

Regards,
Mitul Limbani,
Founder & CEO,
Enterux Solutions Pvt Ltd,
The Enterprise Linux Company(r),
http://www.enterux.com/


On 06-Feb-09, at 21:58, Shelby Ramsey <sicfslist@gmail.com> wrote:

> Steve,
>
> You definitely have a better grasp on this topic than me. But I
> think it's a tough sell on the host based processing ... when you
> look at products like what audio codes can do on a card (3 DS-3's
> worth of transcoding) ... but I have had a couple of soft switch
> vendors claim though that they could do 2,000 calls per host (but I
> seriously doubt it).
>
> I agree that producing a card that does 120 channels is pretty
> worthless ... but having something that could do say a 1000 would be
> very helpful.
>
> G723 is a pretty big deal internationally ... I'm even seeing crazy
> requests like AMR from folks trying to originate VoIP off of mobile
> devices in Europe.
>
> But I agree just being able to g729 --> ulaw or ulaw --> g729 would
> be a great first step (host based or otherwise).
>
> SDR
>
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