[asterisk-biz] The newest buzz word - cloud computing

[Peter Beckman]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, praveen kumar wrote:

> I did lot of research on this subject.
>
> - Call recordings etc. will have latency and it will be not
> manageable. You call records should first be stored internally and
> then written out to S3 block. S3 block can be anywhere - west or east
> and you will notice call degradation.

  Untrue.  You write to disk, then after the call you write to S3.  I agree,
  writing to S3 directly is a bad idea.

> - G729 may have transcoding issues on cloud. Also, if you are using
> Speech recognition - G729 is no no.

  Just don't transcode -- avoid it!

> My 2 cents - cloud is not yet ready as they may have latency not
> covered in their SLA and they charge bandwidth in/out.

  Agreed.

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