On Friday 16 June 2006 08:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found out what the competition means by Digium cards being inefficient. > Their phone cards (proprietary) have P4 processors built it. Therefore, > you COULD run the server on a PII bacause the phone cards are doing most of > the work. This is probably why Windows 2003 server works well for this > server. The cards would take away programming flexibility though wouldn't > they? Software is easier to update that firmware.
That's all meaningless. I ran Asterisk on a P90 (before MMX) -- granted it could only handle a couple of calls with gsm transcoding, but it worked. A P2 is *tons* of processor for basic PBX and transcode use. Dialogic made (makes) this argument but their on-board processors are *very* weak. -A.
