# Hardware requirement for 22 channels

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/hardware-requirement-for-22-channels/35378>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 18, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/hardware-requirement-for-22-channels/35378 "2013-07-18T15:45:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Azril\_Nazli\_Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cdc98d/32.png) [@Azril\_Nazli\_Alias](https://community.wowza.com/u/Azril_Nazli_Alias)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/hardware-requirement-for-22-channels/35378/1 "2013-07-18T15:45:50Z")

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Current we have 5 tv channels and 18 radio channels

and we need to transcode Tv channels into mutiple profiles

The TV will be transcoded to

- 720p @ 1000kbps ( 720 x 573 ) source

- 360p

- 240p

- 160p

there will be 5 TV channels need to be transcoded

Currenty we plan to use 1 server

- 2 x intel xeon e5-2650 X 8 core

- 16GB DDR3 ram

- Nvidia tesla c2705

Can the server handle that kind of stress ?

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Young](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/matt_young/32/389_2.png) [@Matt\_Young](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Young)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/hardware-requirement-for-22-channels/35378/2 "2013-07-18T07:25:52Z")

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You may be able to draw some parallels from the following performance tests:

[Wowza Transcoder AddOn Performance Benchmark](https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-transcoder-performance-benchmark)

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**Author:** ![yee\_woon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/439d5e/32.png) [@yee\_woon](https://community.wowza.com/u/yee_woon)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/hardware-requirement-for-22-channels/35378/3 "2013-09-17T02:40:52Z")

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Hi

We have the problem like you, Can you test your scenario on mentioned hardware? please share your experience.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Peter\_Burke](https://community.wowza.com/u/Peter_Burke)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/hardware-requirement-for-22-channels/35378/4 "2013-09-17T12:04:08Z")

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similar issue coming up for us - 24 TV channels fed to us as MPEG-TS (can we even ingest that directly?) - then use the trancoder to various bitrates. How many can Wowza actually handle on a system with the max 24 cores it can access and max Java heap space? We are running two such channels right now doing a pass-through on 720p, only transcoding 3 lower bitrates, and a 16 core box is about 35% CPU. Not really something we can scale very well on a single piece of hardware. There’s no way we can run a desktop OS to use hardware h.264 acceleration. I doubt you can run more than 4 of these on a single server, which means we’d need 6 of them, and that’s way too much hardware for the budget (as of now - none…).