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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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Subject: ISDN Compression Load on CPU
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SDLComm has a new PCI card called the RISCom/Pri.  Primary rate has 23
64Kbps B-Channels.  I wonder how many cards can be put into a P90 box
running BSD Unix before the compression overloads the CPU? 

How heavy is the computational load of something like STAC compression?

-mh