transcoding gateway

[gardo]

i'm curious about how to setup a transcoding gateway. we currently use g729 codecs on our dialers. we have around 22 agents doing outbound calls with full recording. we're planning to ramp up to 40-50 agents. what is the recommended hardware for a transcoding asterisk?

[mflorell]

There are many options depending on what you want to pay and what is available in your area. You could use dedicated products from AudioCodes or Cisco, or you could have a standalone Asterisk server do only transcoding. I have not set any of the dedicated products up, but it is possible to do.

[rudra_ach]

I am trying to use a dedicated Asterisk server as a transcoding server, could you please give me idea, how the call flow will happen. Any configuration changes I need to do. Any information will be greatly helpful.

Regards.
Rudra

There are many options depending on what you want to pay and what is available in your area. You could use dedicated products from AudioCodes or Cisco, or you could have a standalone Asterisk server do only transcoding. I have not set any of the dedicated products up, but it is possible to do.

[mflorell]

You just need to set it up as an IAX friend in iax.conf and register to it. Make sure you have an IAX account set up for the dialing server on the transcoding server. Then just have the 91NXXNXXXXXX extensions dial out through that trunk to the transcoding server.

Examples of most of the settings you need are in the LOAD_BALANCE doc.