Bobby wrote: > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 14:55:22 John R Pierce wrote: > >> Pete Kay wrote: >> >>> What happens is that at around 2K channels running g711 ( 64k) codec, >>> all eth0 is used up and no more traffic can go through. >>> >> 2000 * 64kbit/sec is 128Mbit/sec, not counting any additional protocol >> > > Actually if you are running g.711 over VoIP, the overhead brings it up to > something like 87Kbps per direction. > k, that puts it up around 175Mbit/sec. (and thats just one way...if these are full duplex conversations, then there's that amount of data being recieved AND transmitted from each end. now we're up to 700Mbit/sec if we're looking at transmit and recieve in and out...