[asterisk-users] Asterisk and Digium TC400B

[Shaun Ruffell]

On 09/23/2010 06:48 AM, Tarek Sawah 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?

Hi Tarek,

I can not address your question about how many software transcoding
sessions your server can handle, but I can say that the TC400M works
fine with multiple cards in a single server.  The driver spreads the
load among installed cards.

Cheers,
Shaun

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Shaun Ruffell
Digium, Inc. | Linux Kernel Developer
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
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