[Asterisk-Users] DS3000P - 20 E1 capacity on single card

[Steve Underwood]

Matt Klein wrote:

> Kevin,
>      Mmm. Yep.
>
> -m
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>
>> Matthew Boehm wrote:
>>
>>> So, no hardware encoding on this beast?
>>
>>
>> The announcement on the website makes no mention of transcoding, echo 
>> cancellation or toast-and-jam making, so at this time, no, there is 
>> no hardware transcoding apparently included. (Besides, would you 
>> really want a board that could only ENcode? <G>)
>
Since encoding typically requires 5 times as much compute as decoding, 
for CELP based codecs, an encode onyl board would not be as dumb as it 
seems at first sight :-)

Regards,
Steve