----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Hester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Port density: DS3 cards?
> > > > > >I talked to Imagestream this morning about the possibilites. Their lead > > >engineer said that there would be no way to do voice over their > > DS-3 cards > > >using software processing because it would take too much > > processing power. > > >It would be possible to do some custom design for their boards that > > >incorpotates hardware processing, but he doesn't know of > > anything currently > > >available. So unless there's something I/he missed, I guess the > > answer is > > >no on the DS-3. > > > > > >Andy > > > > I have no reason to disbelieve this report, but I will offer some > > minor scepticism at this reply. A well-equipped PC can currently > > handle 8 T1 channels, and it seems that only the IRQ issue is causing > > more channels to not be viable in the current TE410P environment. It > > would seem reasonable to think that a very well equipped PC (4-way, > > 8-way?) would be able to handle the "processing power" requirements > > of a DS3, whatever was meant by that statement. Of course, there may > > be other underlying issues specific to ImageStream that make this > > impossible; I don't know. > > > > JT > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > The guy did leave open the possibility that he could be wrong, and said that > he'd be glad to answer any further questions or if we had some other way of > doing it. If you or some of the others think that this should be possible > then perhaps we could get together a list of more specific questions to ask. > > Thoughts? My thinking is that this is a typical answer from the voice equipment companies that are use to doing voice processing in hardware DSPs. I don't think they know the capabilities of Asterisk. I would suggest getting Digium involved. If anyone can do it they should be able to. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users