[cisco-voip] AS5400-HPX platform restriction

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Ryan Fields wrote:

> We are currently running voip service using an AS5400-HPX
> and would like to have off-ramp faxing as well.  I did a couple
> of tries of having both voice calls and off-ramp process at the
> same time.  So far its working fine but to be on the safe side
> and not degrade its performance, I'd like to find its platform
> restrictions. How can I verify the maximum simultaneous

AFAIK, cisco does not publicly release such specs.  I had a customer
trying to do fax broadcasting with a AS5400-HPX about year and a half ago.
You might find something in the cisco-nas archive around Aug 2003...but
off the top of my head, I think we got up to somewhere around 150
simultaneous outgoing faxes, but that was with the box doing absolutely
nothing else (other than the occasional crash), dedicating all its CPU to
faxing.  I wouldn't expect it to do reasonable VOIP quality with anywhere
near that number of faxes going on at the same time.

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