Author: Vic Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Budgetone SIP phones
>> If you're handling high
>> call volume, iLBC is a great way to overload the server...
>
> It was approximately in 2005 when last I toyed with this, but I managed to
> get an Asterisk box doing 20 concurrent (internal) calls with iLBC on
> fairly commodity hardware.
Yes. When you start handling high call volume, iLBC becomes too expensive
in CPU terms. The servers I use handle thousands of calls, and iLBC just
isn't an option.
> The only exceptions was a few soft-phones on
> older hardware, where I had to revert to G.711 uLaw (no compression).
For internal calls, I'd do G.711 anyway. But you ought to be using A-law
in Europe, really...
