[Asterisk-Users] Hardware Capacity/Configuration

[Mehdi Chouikh]

If use Alaw or ulaw as codec, i think it's
enough.
But if you need to make transcoding to a hard codec like g729, g723,  you 
have to look other cpu.

regards
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Salama" <dsalama at user.net>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:21 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware Capacity/Configuration


>I know this is a frequent topic on the list. Sorry if this creates more 
>bandwidth but I couldn't get my specific answer from neither the wiki nor 
>searching the list.
>
> I've read that a P4 3GHz+ should be sufficient to handle a 4 T1s on a 
> single CPU machine. I am setting up a proof of concept machine but I was 
> only able to get a P4 1.6GHz machine. If this machine is only going to be 
> "forwarding" the calls to another, much more powerful, Asterisk machine 
> which will handle more demanding call processing rules, scripts, 
> Monitoring, etc, do you think this CPU will be able to handle the 4 T1s? 
> Will it handle 3? 2? 1? Efficiently, of course.
>
> The idea is to setup a basic VoIP gateway whose only intelligence will be 
> to forward ALL incoming calls to another Asterisk box using IAX as well as 
> placing outbound calls through the T1s from other Asterisk boxes 
> communicating using IAX.
>
> Comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
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