Size of 10 minute recorded voice conversation 4.69MB 2.34MB 0.97MB
G.711 ADPCM GSM6.1
64Kbps 32Kbps 13.2Kbps
*IP Telephony Storage
Network Design
* TOTAL COST OF
OWNERSHIP
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2U External Hot Swap SCSI cabinet with seven 146 GB SCA U320 hard drives (~730 GB RAID 5) and a U320 Single Channel RAID controller = $10.27 per Gigabyte of storage. 1U IP Telephony Storage with four 250 GB ATA drives (~750 GB) = $6.93 per Gigabyte of storage.
* MARKET TRENDS
Faster networks will promote more use of
networked storage to replace desktop PC storage for much-easier storage administration.
Networking technology advances and
deployment may accelerate the separation of storage and server components of IP Telephony Storage.
*USES OF NAS
NAS is useful for more than just general
centralized storage provided to client computers in environments with large amounts of data.
NAS can enable simpler and lower cost systems
such as load-balancing and fault-tolerant email and web server systems by providing storage services.
*CLUSTERED NAS
A clustered NAS is a NAS that is using a
distributed file system running simultaneously on multiple servers.
Clustered NAS, like a traditional one, still
provides unified access to the files from any of the cluster nodes, unrelated to the actual location of the data.
*CONCLUSION
*IP Telephony Storage should be considered a
prime component for any enterprise telephony application network design that requires 300 GB+ of storage beyond what is available on the local host server.