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

Matthew Boehm mboehm at cytelcom.com
Tue Apr 12 12:24:36 MST 2005


Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 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.

So, no hardware encoding on this beast?

-Matthew



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