[Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Andres wrote:

> Can you confirm if there will be some sort of DSP daughther card add on 
> of some sort for the DS3000 so that we can run G729 transcoding?  I 
> don't see how the DS3 interface would be usefull unless we could offload 
> transcoding stuff to onboard DSPs.  Or is Digium only going to recommend 
> this card for G711 only uses?

No, I cannot comment on that.

It is safe to say that for non-transcoding applications, any reasonable 
64-bit CPU should be able to handle the full traffic load of a DS-3. A 
32-bit CPU will run into problems supporting an adequate number of threads.