[asterisk-users] OSLEC vs HPEC vs Octasic

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Gordon Henderson wrote:

> So at worst, it's saying it can handle 29 incarnations, and at best, 37 - 
> that's assuming no other CPU load such as transcoding.
> 
> So it's well capable of handing your requirements of 16 channels - more-so 
> if you're using a "server" class box, and not the "embedded" type systems 
> I'm using here.
> 
> (On my dev box, an older 2GHz Celeron, 128KB cache, it's telling me it can 
> do 120 incarnations, and on a 2.4GHz Xeon with 4MB cache, it said it could 
> do 321)

Those numbers are with a 16ms tail, which is very short, and unlikely to
be an adequate echo tail for connection to the PSTN (although fine for
analog phones). A more normal configuration would be 32, 64 or 128
millisecond tails, which would cut those numbers down by a factor of 2,
4 or 8.

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Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)