[Asterisk-Users] Really Get 96 Simul Calls?

[Jim Van Meggelen]

asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
> Matthew Boehm wrote:
> 
>>     Interesting. Says on Dells website that it won't be released
>> until December. Hmm.
> 
> Are you sure you're not confusing the "Estimated ship date" with a
> release date? Yes, it says estimated ship date 12/10/2004, but that's
> because they are selling like crazy.
> 
> The other possibility is that you're thinking of the new 1855 blade
> servers, which aren't released yet, but then they don't have any PCI
> slots anyway :-) 
> 
>>     And this one won't happen because of all the 711->729 transcoding
>> it has to do?
> 
> I believe that is the stumbling block, yes. It's likely that
> even dual
> 3.0GHz Nocona Xeons won't be able to bidirectionally
> transcode G.711 to
> G.729 for 96 channels in realtime (i.e. fast enough to do it without
> loss). All the previous performance reports on the list and the wiki
> were for much slower hardware, though, so I'd guess that it's worth a
> try; I just don't have the budget to try it myself <G>

No worries. Give it a year and such machines will be mainstream. Moore's
law.

We're close, very close. 

Remember when you couldn't play MP3s and run other apps at the same
time?

Remember when you could actually watch your system decompress a jpeg?


Cheers,

Jim.