No, that flexibility is exactly what I'm looking for, but you simply can't
mix that many G.711 channels in Xeon cores.
My question is, does anyone know of any open source software that will
utilize DSP cards for the actual voice stream crunching of G.711 channels?
All of the signalling and management function would be in the software
running on the host hardware. Every Telco grade media mixer does this,
every edge T3 or OC gateway.
Can FreeSwitch or Asterisk do all the conferencing work, using DSP hardware
offloading?
Rachel
________________________________________
From: Mike Ashton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent:
February 27, 2009 12:03 PM
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Conference bridge
Rachel,
I think you may have a misconception of what Asterisk ad/or FreeSwitch are.
They are really telephony/media software platforms that can be configured to
do many things. The most frequent uses are as full blown PBX phone systems,
but they can be used strictly as, a VM platform, an IVR application server,
media gateways, etc.....
Mike
Rachel Quin wrote: I think I'm not making myself clear, sorry. Our
t3's and Megalink circuit
from Bell come into AS5400's. Our VoIP infrastructure is entirely SIP. A
conferencing server would only handle RTP streams, mixing channels for many
large-ish volume conferences. The box I'm talking about would have 2 10gig
nics, one or two DSP cards, and whatever software is needed to handle
managing conferencing and directing RTP/G.711 content channels to and from
the DSP card(s). I am not looking to build a stand alone phone system.
Rachel
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Mullis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: February
27, 2009 11:21 AM
To: Rachel Quin
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Conference bridge
asterisk does work well and you can stick 2 cards (8 pris worth of
cards to a beefy server) but really no more.
for larger scale conferencing on a single box you really need
something larger.
Rachel Quin wrote:
Really all I'm looking at is media mixing for call conferencing, I have
all
the other puzzle pieces.
Rachel
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Mullis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: February
27, 2009 10:44 AM
To: Rachel Quin
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Conference bridge
Have you looked into Metaswitch?
Rachel Quin wrote:
I'd actually like to reintroduce my question. I'll start with some
background:
Beanfield Metroconnect is a dark-fibre, lan-ex, and Internet provider for
office buildings in the downtown core. We have an extensive 10gig
backbone,
two large pops and datacenters in Toronto, and one in NY NY.
We own the
fibre end to end in our core, and we offer business services exclusively.
We are just branching into voice services, and our initial setup is the
following: we're fully redundant with each site having Sylantro for
switching, Convedia media mixers, AS5400-t3 links to Bell, Bell Megalink
circuits for wholesale long distance, top end BSCs, and currently Iperia
for
vmail (though I'd like to build my own solution for that).
I'd like to offer conferencing services, but we can't do anything
completely
amateur hour. I've heard of someone using four dual core Xeon
to process
180 channels, and I had a nice little chuckle ;^)
In thinking back over the problem, I guess I have to look at the actual
DSP
cards, Sharks, TI's, and see what I like, but does anyone have any
experience with any open source software using DSP offload cards? At
this
juncture I'm more worried about H/W support than features. I'll probably
be
looking at a 16 or 32 core DSP card, but as I said, I've got to do some
shopping.
Any thoughts, suggestions?
Rachel Quin
Beanfield Metroconnect
audace fortuna iuvat
_____ From: Mike Ashton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: February 27, 2009 9:23 AM
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Conference bridge
Rachel,
In my opinion freeswitch has the best base conference bride features, no
dependency on hardware or the ztdummy timer and loads more features. For
a
comparison of the FS & Asterisk features here is link to a comparison
http://www.freeswitch.org/node/100
Also here is a small article (
http://www.junctionnetworks.com/blog/charlotte/2008/05/21/freeswitch-asteris
k-replacement ) and their rational of picking FS over
Asterisk for their
conference bridge product. Hope this helps,
Mike
Rachel Quin wrote: I want to build a conference bridge using
dedicated DSP hardware, running
on
FreeBSD. Does anyone have recomendations on HW/SW? Rachel Quin
Beanfield Metroconnect audace fortuna iuvat
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