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steveu at coppice.org
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 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Where is the Digium DS3 card? |
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Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote:
| Quote: | On April 7, 2008 02:01:08 am Alex Balashov wrote:
| Quote: | A Lucent TNT Max outfitted with _plethoric_ VFCs might work okay. Apex
too, perhaps. Haven't tried to see how much it can handle when TDM->RTP
translation is required.
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I'm curious; are the cpu/tdm/dsp requirements for 672 g729 rtp streams that
much higher than 672 v92 data streams? I have done work for a dialup ISP
that has probably 20 of the damn things running for quite some time now with
zero issues, and I can't imagine that the RTP requirements are higher than
v92's.
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A DS3 *could* be handled, as long as the compute load of transcoding and
other heavy tasks is not too great. However, it cannot be satisfactorily
handled with the zaptel way of doing things. Zaptel creates a huge storm
of small reads and writes, with very little timing tolerance, which
congests the machine. Reading and writing 672 modem streams is far more
flexible and efficient. The timing is less critical, when things fall
behind a little the reads and writes get bigger, automatically
increasing their efficiency.
If the driver does a bundle of reads and writes for multiple channels in
one go, the throughput on the telephony card side could potentially be
quite high, with reasonably tight timing. Then, performance would come
down to how many little RTP packet reads and writes you can do. The
network stacks really need a mode for bundling there, too.
I/O for streaming is still living within the constraints of an I/O model
designed to suit bulk, loosely timed, data. The model is a poor fit.
Steve |
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