No, asterisk on conventional hardware can handle at most a few hundred calls.
I would strongly discourage the use of Asterisk purely as a transit element for billing. Just because a2billing is available does not mean you should. Far more scalable solutions are easily available. -- Sent from mobile device On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:19 AM, michel freiha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm planning to build a VOIP solution for handling SIP calls coming > from endpoints registered on a specific SIP proxy...I made some > research regarding network architecture and found out that the best > solution is to use OpenSips as SIP proxy for registration and local > calls between registered endpoints and use asterisk server with > a2billing for PSTN calls, rating, routing and all other stuff plus a > MySQL database... > > This architecture convinced me, but I have some questions regarding > asterisk and I need asterisk expert answers in order to take > decision... > > 1- Is there any Software limitation on asterisk regarding number of > simulltaneous calls? > 2- Can 1 asterisk server handle 5000 simuitaneous calls if I have > the appropriate hardware? > 3- It's etter to have one asterisk server for hadling 5k > simultaneous calls or divide the load on different servers? > > > Waiting your reply > > Regards > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
