[asterisk-users] Asterisk and Digium TC400B

[Tim Nelson]

----- "Tarek Sawah" <tareksawah at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> Because of the heavy load and the high expectations of an asterisk
> server
> offered as a solution integrated with our CRM software.. we were
> looking
> into other possibilities than software Licenses for G729 and G723
> codecs..
> to lower the pressure on the processor giving it more space to do more
> work.
> We heard of a hardware (PCI CARDS) can be used with Asterisk that does
> the
> work. And we stumbled with Digium TC400B.
> Could be a newbie's question.. but does that serve our needs? As we
> have not
> pressured a server before up to 1400 extensions with 600 outbound SIP
> calls
> (customer's needs).
> The server in question is Core I7 16 GB ram and Raid 10 SAS drives.
> We need to know how many calls with G729 or G723 can this server
> handle? And
> as far as we can see this Digium card can be a cheaper solution If
> calculating the CPU cost plus the licenses for each channel.
> One more question.. can we add two of those cards to the server? Will
> it be
> efficient?

Sangoma also has a transcoding card:

http://sangoma.com/products/hardware_products/transcoding.html

My understanding of both the Digium and Sangoma offerings is that you can use multiple cards in your system.

--Tim