Really all I'm looking at is media mixing for call conferencing, I have all the other puzzle pieces.
Rachel -----Original Message----- From: Philip Mullis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: February 27, 2009 10:44 AM To: Rachel Quin Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Conference bridge Have you looked into Metaswitch? Rachel Quin wrote: > I'd actually like to reintroduce my question. I'll start with some > background: > > > > Beanfield Metroconnect is a dark-fibre, lan-ex, and Internet provider for > office buildings in the downtown core. We have an extensive 10gig backbone, > two large pops and datacenters in Toronto, and one in NY NY. We own the > fibre end to end in our core, and we offer business services exclusively. > > > > We are just branching into voice services, and our initial setup is the > following: we're fully redundant with each site having Sylantro for > switching, Convedia media mixers, AS5400-t3 links to Bell, Bell Megalink > circuits for wholesale long distance, top end BSCs, and currently Iperia for > vmail (though I'd like to build my own solution for that). > > > > I'd like to offer conferencing services, but we can't do anything completely > amateur hour. I've heard of someone using four dual core Xeon to process > 180 channels, and I had a nice little chuckle ;^) > > > > In thinking back over the problem, I guess I have to look at the actual DSP > cards, Sharks, TI's, and see what I like, but does anyone have any > experience with any open source software using DSP offload cards? At this > juncture I'm more worried about H/W support than features. I'll probably be > looking at a 16 or 32 core DSP card, but as I said, I've got to do some > shopping. > > > > Any thoughts, suggestions? > > > > Rachel Quin > > Beanfield Metroconnect > > > > audace fortuna iuvat > > > > _____ > > From: Mike Ashton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: February 27, 2009 9:23 AM > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Conference bridge > > > > Rachel, > > In my opinion freeswitch has the best base conference bride features, no > dependency on hardware or the ztdummy timer and loads more features. For a > comparison of the FS & Asterisk features here is link to a comparison > http://www.freeswitch.org/node/100 > > Also here is a small article ( > http://www.junctionnetworks.com/blog/charlotte/2008/05/21/freeswitch-asteris > k-replacement ) and their rational of picking FS over Asterisk for their > conference bridge product. > > Hope this helps, > > Mike > > Rachel Quin wrote: > > I want to build a conference bridge using dedicated DSP hardware, running on > FreeBSD. Does anyone have recomendations on HW/SW? > > Rachel Quin > Beanfield Metroconnect > > audace fortuna iuvat > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.3/1971 - Release Date: 02/27/09 07:05:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
