[VoiceOps] Hardware transcoding solutions?

[Alex Balashov]

Strongly agree with Simon that transcoding several thousand concurrent 
channels on a multicore box is highly possible in software, using FOSS, 
and that it would most likely yield the best per-port economics, 
learning curve and ongoing maintenance notwithstanding.

However, Brooks' stated main criteria isn't cost so much as physical 
density and power footprint. With that in mind, I'm not sure if a single 
1U server can reasonably do 5000 channels in software _and_ provide a 
future growth path. Companies that realise they can do X much more 
economically than they thought possible tend to do exponentially more 
X[1], so I could see a home-grown solution branching out into a 3-5 box 
setup easily. As I understood it, that's something Brooks is looking to 
avoid here, primarily due to rackspace and power constraints.

-- Alex

[1] In the style of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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