On 09/23/2010 06:48 AM, Tarek Sawah wrote: > Greetings, > Because of the heavy load and the high expectations of an asterisk server > offered as a solution integrated with our CRM software.. we were looking > into other possibilities than software Licenses for G729 and G723 codecs.. > to lower the pressure on the processor giving it more space to do more work. > We heard of a hardware (PCI CARDS) can be used with Asterisk that does the > work. And we stumbled with Digium TC400B. > Could be a newbie's question.. but does that serve our needs? As we have not > pressured a server before up to 1400 extensions with 600 outbound SIP calls > (customer's needs). > The server in question is Core I7 16 GB ram and Raid 10 SAS drives. > We need to know how many calls with G729 or G723 can this server handle? And > as far as we can see this Digium card can be a cheaper solution If > calculating the CPU cost plus the licenses for each channel. > One more question.. can we add two of those cards to the server? Will it be > efficient?
Hi Tarek, I can not address your question about how many software transcoding sessions your server can handle, but I can say that the TC400M works fine with multiple cards in a single server. The driver spreads the load among installed cards. Cheers, Shaun -- Shaun Ruffell Digium, Inc. | Linux Kernel Developer 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users