On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, John Todd wrote: ... > My rule of thumb has been 100 G.729 channels for a dual 3.0ghz Xeon > machine. Cost: around $42 per channel (I buy SCSI systems with RAID, > and that includes the $10 charge for the G.729 license.) Your > mileage may vary in both performance and price. Cost for an > AS5300-style solution: around $110 per channel, and that's on the ...
I'm very interesting in a good per channel price, but $42 vs. $110 does not seem to be comparing apples to apples. You say the Asterisk system is $4200 (100 x $42), less the $1000 for the G.729a license (100 x $10), which works out to $3200 for hardware. A Digium quad T1 card is about $1500, meaning the server is around $1700? Can you actually get a dual Zeon 3Ghz with SCSI and RAID for $1700? I assuming that you have at least a GB of RAM installed, possibly more for 100 sessions. Now a Cisco HDV-2T1-48 card is $3500, with dual T1s and loaded with DSP daughtercards. That works out to $76/channel, and you need a free NM port on a Cisco router to install it into. It is certainly more expensive than your $42/channel Asterisk setup, but for small sites is possibly less than a Cisco AA5300, especially if you can install it into an existing router. Tom _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
