> > I was surprised to find out that even simple IVR apps under asterisk > > started hicupping when over about 60-80 channels were running - and > > all they were doing was speaking short prompts and detecting DTMF's. > > Admittedly these are busy systems (lots and lots of new calls over > > short time periods), but I've built Dialogic-based systems in the past > > for almost identical app's - and they were able to handle 2 to 3 times > > this many channels on a much slower central processor. > > Scott, could you describe your hardware setup? I'd like to add it to > the list of successful configurations in the wiki, since there's > currently no description of an IVR-only system. (I assume that below > the 60-channel mark you'd still call it "successful".) >
It's quite hard to compare these things. I've been working with Dialogic's stuff for a while now and it works quite ok. But you still have a lot of problems if you're going deeper into their API. We are building IVR only application's. But these are a bit more complex than standard app's and we've quite long call times... We try to switch to asterisk now. I am preparing a Quad PIII 850 Xeon Machine with a TE410P setup and 1 E1 Line at first. Then let's see how much it can handle ;) If you're asking why Dialogic cards take less CPU look at the board itself and look at the price! An Dual E1 Dialogic Board costs around 10k â ! And if you want to do some conferencing you have to buy an Dialogics Conferencing Board (there's no other possibility with more than 2 callers conferencing) which costs around another 10k - 15k â ! so if you buy a TE410P instead or 2 of them you can buy a lot more of processing power. and even more servers! So perhaps it would be better to distribute your app to several * servers and you still would be a lot cheaper than using dialogics hardware... mho. Regards Fabian _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
