On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Michael Giagnocavo <mgg@giagnocavo.net>wrote: $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.
G729 is roughly 25 MIPS (encode+decode), coppice, please correct as necessary. A dual quad-core xeon 3 ghz should do roughly 1k calls, assuming nothing else is being run.
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.
Or places where licensing isn't enforced, like offshore g729 farms :)
(Not to mention what things like Larrabee will mean for encoding -- 32 1.5GHz "Pentium 4 x64" cores, each with 4 threads?)
32 x 1.5 GHZ = 48 Ghz or roughly 2000 channels ...
And... if you're running Asterisk, um, isn't 5000 channels a wee bit over what you can handle anyways? ;)
Yeh, but not when you have FS :) which is why talks of this capacity on HMP are becoming more and more relevant ... -- wasim h. baig | principal consultant | convergence pk | +92 300 8508070 | peace be upon you ...