Within a few days, I'll have a matrix out to the list with some hardware profiles of various machines that people are using. It won't be a chart of "what do I need?" per se, but it should give you an idea of what other people are doing and if it's successful.
Reminder to those of you who haven't submitted: please send in your hardware profiles to me by Tuesday, and I will anonymize and re-send to the list in a distilled format.
I have again included the questions I need answered below.
JT
Hi-
I'm almost embarrassed to ask the following simple question, following John's excellent and rigorous bandwidth analysis (see earlier thread):
I have a straightforward Asterisk application, IVR-only (no connections between channels). It will simply decode DTMF's and speak prompts (probably A-Law encoded) on a number of E1 circuits simultaneously.
Realistically, how many 30-channel E1's can I support with, for example, a Pentium III 1.4 GHz? I want to build an 8 E1 (240 channel) system - do I need more horsepower than this?
Thanks Scott Stingel
Scott M. Stingel
Emerging Voice Technology Inc.
Palo Alto, California and London, England
URL: www.evtmedia.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:27:30 -0700 To: asterisk-users-lists.digium.com From: John Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hardware Survey: your configurations
The most frequent question on the list and from associates seems to be "What kind of hardware and processing power will I need to put together for an Asterisk server?" Of course, there is no easy answer to that question because of the number of variables that one must take into account when constructing a system.
When no good algorithm exists for building an estimate, the next best thing one can do is look at previous examples in order to build at least an idea of what has been done before that is known to work. To this end, I'd like to gather some of your experiences with hardware and Asterisk implementations, and provide them a permanent place to live so that new users can refer to at least a list of known examples before they clutter up the list or IRC channel with the same questions and the receive the same replies.
SEND REPLIES TO ME, PERSONALLY. I will condense in one week and reply back to the list with a histogram or something, and put it on my website. I will make all replies anonymous unless you wish to be identified in the summary. I may extend this survey in the future if it is successful.
JT
---------------------------- Asterisk Hardware Survey v.20030625.1
1) What architecture: (i386, sparc, ppc, etc)
2) How many processors:
3) What mhz processors:
4) What processor type: (Intel P4, AMD, UltraSparc, G4, etc.)
5) Complete only if you have Digium or other Zap-like cards:
a) What is your total port capacity? (Meaning if you had 2 T100P cards, this would be "48" as an example)
b) How many channels do you "normally" see used?
(Give a guess of how many channels are up as a daily "used hours" average, excluding dead hours where there is no activity)
c) What is your daily peak # of channels used? (Again, guesses are OK.)
6) Do you have IP-based channels? ("Yes" if you are using SIP, H323, etc.)
7) What is the most-often used codec? (G.711, G.729, Speex, ILBC, etc.)
8) How many IP-based channels do you normally have open?
9) How many IP-based channels do you have at peak usage times?
10) Are you happy with the performance of the system with the specs above?
11) Tell us your experiences with the configuration you have.
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