[Freeswitch-users] Parallela board - interesting for FreeSWITCH?

[Francis]

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. :)

Francis


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On 29/12/2013 9:20 AM, Bob Hartwig wrote:
> Does 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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