[Freeswitch-users] G.729 transcoder licensing

[Alex Lake]

Good point. It would be great if I could have (say) up to 30 G729 
sessions, and beyond that it "failed over" to G711.
> If you are running a high traffic system, be careful and check CPU 
> utilization, as another 50 transcoding sessions might put you into 
> dangerous territory.  Digium or Sangoma are you friends in that case.  
> Their boards take a lot of load off a high traffic system. What I 
> don't know is if both technologies can coexist in one system (120 
> transcoding sessions from a Digium board + XX soft licenses)  how 
> would it decide which to use first?
> Guillermo
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Alex Lake <alex at digitalmail.com 
> <mailto:alex at digitalmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Well, I will be able to now. ;-)
>     It just seems that it might be more sensible, when out of licenses, to
>     at least offer the prospect of a call using an alternative codec.
>     Sometimes it's hard to predict how many licenses are required.
>     > Why can't you detect that now? You should be able to detect that
>     you are at
>     > or near the upper limit in the dialplan via API in a chan var
>     and go from
>     > there... If you are constantly running out of licenses you
>     probably don't
>     > have enough
>     >
>     >
>     > On 6/13/13 5:27 AM, "Alex Lake" <alex at digitalmail.com
>     <mailto:alex at digitalmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> Thanks
>     >>> If the channel picks G729 then finds there's no license
>     available when
>     >>> (if) it goes to transcode the call will fail and hang up.
>     >>>
>     >> That's a shame. I wonder what ways around that might be.
>     Presumably one
>     >> can work out how many are in use, and if it's at or near the
>     max, one
>     >> could possibly dynamically change the config and reload the
>     appropriate
>     >> bit (presumably a reloadxml wouldn't be the right bit).
>     >>
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