<div dir="ltr">Provided that the exponentially more transcoding that they'll try to do is equal to or less than the exponentially Moore increase in processing power over time*, this solution comes with an in-built growth path.<div><br></div><div>--Dave</div><div><br></div><div>* I'm aware that that's not quite what Mr. Moore said.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Alex Balashov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com" target="_blank">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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