[asterisk-users] Asterisk concurrent calls count

[Michael Graves]

On Sun, 18 May 2008 00:34:30 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 07:07:51PM -0500, Michael Graves wrote:
>> I work in the broadcast and TV production business. Some time ago a
>> major company called Quantel created a hardware system called "Edit
>> Box." It was wickedly fast and could do things with multiple streams of
>> uncompressed video in real-time. It was way beyond PCs, Macs or *nix
>> boxes of the day. It started at $500,000 USD for four streams.
>
>... and now I can do that on a Mac laptop.
>
>Aren't you glad *you* didn't have to write that check?  :-)

That tale harkens from around 1997. Even at $750,000 the owners of the
facility made a lot of money with the system. Big investment often
comes with big returns.

Michael
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