[asterisk-dev] How we can use BV Codec in Asterisk?

Steve Howes steve-lists at geekinter.net
Mon Nov 16 11:54:36 CST 2009


On 16 Nov 2009, at 17:27, Steve Edwards wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Nick Lewis wrote:
>
>> Depends on curex cost of bandwidth versus capex cost of cpu mips.
>
> Neither google or wikipedia gave me any insight into what "curex" and
> "capex" mean. Can you explain?

OPEX and CAPEX maybe?

OPEX = operational expenditure - recurring costs, line rental etc  
(i.e. bandwidth to cope with more un-compressed audio)
CAPEX = capital expenditure - single one off costs for purchasing  
assets (i.e. more CPU to transcode)



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