[cisco-nas] AS5400 or AS5400XM

[Joseph Mays]

The box currently contains 4 NP108 cards, but I have heard (again, possibly 
incorrectly) that when using the boxes for voip it's possible to run out of 
processor capacity with far fewer calls than are provided by the number of 
DSPs.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Doug McIntyre
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2018 3:01 PM
To: Joseph Mays
Subject: Re: [cisco-nas] AS5400 or AS5400XM

Caveat up front.. Having always used this platform for digital modem calls
rather than VoIP calls, it was always my understanding that the factor
that controls how many voice calls can be concurrent (besides the # of
trunks you have) is based on the DSP's you have installed on the
system.  And if you have the universal DSP cards (ie. voice and modem
both), or some of the older ones that may have done one or the other.

Ie.

#show chassis slot

Slot 1:
DFC type is AS5350 T1 8 PRI DFC

OIR events:
    Number of insertions = 0, Number of removals = 0
    DFC State is DFC_S_OPERATIONAL

Slot 2:
DFC type is AS5350 NP108 DFC

OIR events:
    Number of insertions = 0, Number of removals = 0
    DFC State is DFC_S_OPERATIONAL

Slot 3:
DFC type is AS5350 NP108 DFC

OIR events:
    Number of insertions = 0, Number of removals = 0
    DFC State is DFC_S_OPERATIONAL


Shows thie AS5350 (close cousin to AS5400) with two NP108 DFC cards.

So, more than enough DFC channels to handle all available telco ports
on this model (192 channels).

I believe especially on the AS5400XM, that they only got sold with
NP108 DFC cards, but the early AS5400's could have done something
different.

How many VoIP calls are you looking to gateway with this platform?



On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 02:34:26PM -0400, Joseph Mays wrote:
> Thanks for the response! Both show diag and going to the location to look 
> at the box itself make it clear it's a 5400, though the people owning it 
> said it was a 5400XM.
>
> The only other question is about the number of voip calls the box can 
> support. My understanding (possibly wrong) is that there is an upper limit 
> on the number of voip calls an AS5400 can sustain, depending on the 
> memory, processor, and codec being used. Is this correct, and if so how do 
> I calculate it?
>
> ArmoryPl-AS5400#show ver
> Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
> IOS (tm) 5400 Software (C5400-JS-M), Version 12.3(3i), RELEASE SOFTWARE 
> (fc1)
> Copyright (c) 1986-2005 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Fri 12-Aug-05 22:07 by ssearch
> Image text-base: 0x6000895C, data-base: 0x61900000
>
> ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(1r)1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> BOOTLDR: 5400 Software (C5400-BOOT-M), Version 12.1(1)XD1, EARLY 
> DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
>
> ArmoryPl-AS5400 uptime is 1 week, 1 day, 3 hours, 17 minutes
> System returned to ROM by bus error at PC 0x615EEEE8, address 0x59CCDEC at 
> 11:13:47 EDT Mon Oct 1 2018
> System restarted at 11:14:51 EDT Mon Oct 1 2018
> System image file is "flash:c5400-js-mz.123-3i.bin"
>
> cisco AS5400 (R7K) processor (revision T) with 524288K/131072K bytes of 
> memory.
> Processor board ID JAE09054U8M
> R7000 CPU at 250Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 1.0, 256KB L2, 2048KB L3 Cache
> Last reset from warm-reset
> Bridging software.
> X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
> SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).
> TN3270 Emulation software.
> Primary Rate ISDN software, Version 1.1.
> Manufacture Cookie Info:
> EEPROM Type 0x0001, EEPROM Version 0x01, Board ID 0x31,
> Board Hardware Version 3.34, Item Number 800-5171-02,
> Board Revision C0, Serial Number JAE09054U8M,
> PLD/ISP Version 2.2,  Manufacture Date 26-Jan-2005.
> Processor 0x14, MAC Address 0x012801C6694
> Backplane HW Revision 1.0, Flash Type 5V
> 2 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> 444 Serial network interface(s)
> 432 terminal line(s)
> 64 Channelized T1/PRI port(s)
> 2 Channelized T3 port(s)
> 512K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> 65536K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)
> 16384K bytes of processor board Boot flash (Read/Write)
>
> The codec being used is G.711, which does virtually no compression, so I 
> would imagine the processor usage is very low as compared to other codecs.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Gert Doering
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2018 1:24 PM
> To: Joseph Mays
> Cc: nas cisco
> Subject: Re: [cisco-nas] AS5400 or AS5400XM

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