[Asterisk-Users] Pros and Cons of T1/E1 cards

[Armin Schindler]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> David Waugh wrote:
> 
> > This means for example that the card could be used for a conferencing
> > application with 24 users with echo cancellation/ gain control being
> > handled by the card - and not having to be processed by the central CPU.
> 
> That is correct, of course, but keep in mind that having enough CPU horsepower
> to do those functions on the host will cost less than $1000US more than a
> system that couldn't (and that's assuming your low end under $1000US box
> cannot do it... many of them can).

If the CPU has nothing else to do... well then it is possible. But I don't 
think the CPU won't have any other peaks which might disturb the 
echo-cancel/conference processing.

Armin