[asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

[Roger Marquis]

Jon Pounder wrote:
> This sounds like a bunch of gobbledegook spewed out by those very "high
> end" firewall vendors.  Call it what you want but anything that processes
> packets in any way and makes a decision on what to do is by definition a
> CPU.

You won't find much support for that opinion in network engineering
circles.  The processing advantage of ASICs is easily measured and widely
documented.

ASICs are particularly critical to latency-sensitive protocols and those
using small packet sizes with correspondingly high packet counts.
According to Praveen Kumar (Founder/CEO of Packet Island) the ASIC
differential is even more noticeable with interactive streaming video than
streaming audio.

Roger Marquis