Re: [Astlinux-users] Bizarre idea...

[John T. <joh...@gm...>]

Have you seen this http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/tc400b.php



On 4/8/07, ast...@el... <ast...@el...> wrote:
>
> I had a bit of a brainfart recently after seeing some info on the
> newer VIA nanoITX boards that should be coming out late summer.
>
> I understand that there are codec offload engines available as
> hardware. In the case of the VIA stuff I saw, their new monolithic
> chipset has a number of decode capabilities, which can be expanded
> with an external encoder ASIC chip.
>
> Is there any value (or a market) for a dedicated VoIP codec offload
> engine for Asterisk? Would this be best served by real hardware, or by
> an FPGA? The bad idea I had was, get a PCI card with something like a
> Xilinx Vertex4 FPGA, and load up all the codecs Asterisk should ever
> need, video included. Since trying to do this has already crossed a
> number of programming, royalty, and cost thresholds, go for some echo
> cancelling as well. Bad idea, or just infeasible due to cost and
> complexity?
>
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