What do you mean by horrible? CPU-wise, quality-wise? Just curious, because I got my licenses all set up a while back and found the call quality wasn't great and blamed my endpoints, but could it have been asterisk's fault? Should g729 sound almost as good as ulaw?
- Ian On 3/17/06, Shidan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dude I thaught the diagram was reversed. Do you really have to go out thru > your G729 provider, if you tell me where your gateway is, im sure you can > find someone tier-1 voip who > terminates close to your gateway striaght ulaw. G729 is absolutely > horrible with asterisk. > > ---- > Shidan > > > On 3/17/06, Leif Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 3/16/06, Leif Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need to take 4x T1's into an Asterisk box (92B + 4D) and transcode > > > them from G.711 (ulaw) to G.729, terminating via SIP. I've been at VON > > > > > this week in SJ, talking to the Digium guys, and opinions seem to > > > hover around a box with 2x Intel Xeon CPUs running at 3.0GHz or > > > higher. > > > > Just as some added information, which doesn't really affect the > > original question, but will help you visualize the topology I'm > > dealing with. The box will be sitting at a customers side and acting > > as a "transcoding gateway". The customer will be the one filling the > > physical T1 ports with their equipment, where the streams will be > > transcoded by Asterisk to G.729, then sent via SIP to my gateway > > servers where I will terminate his traffic to the PSTN. > > > > Customer -- [4x T1 ( G.711)] --> Asterisk -- [SIP (G.729)] --> Internet > > --> GW --> PSTN > > > > Hope that helps clear up any confusion as to how this is being > > implemented. > > > > This also allows me to bring up another part of the scenario -- have I > > calculated correctly that with all protocol overhead (SIP, RTP, UDP, > > IP + codec media) that I'm looking at around 2.12 Mbps of databit rate > > for all 92 simultaneous G.729 calls? > > > > -- > > Leif Madsen. > > http://www.leifmadsen.com > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
