I'm confident asterisk can manage such a setup, but you will need a damn good consultant to set it up. :)
(You cannot buy just a huge asterisk machine, you will need some kind of cluster to do this).
Joachim (zoa)
jafar mohammed wrote:
Hi all,
I am to come up with a proposal to setup a network of over 15,000 lines. I would like to scale down the costs by using Asterisk as the main switching equipment. Let me give u the full scenario.
1. Fiber optic cables are to run from the central exchange to over 2 kilometer radius at selected distribution points. 2. Every subscriber will have a CAT5 cable terminating at his residence/office. This will provide both Internet/Voice and maybe video to the subscriber. 3. SIP phones will be used by the clients, codec U-Law. Bandwidth is no problem since the fiber network will provide over 10Gbit. 4. Fiber will run to the main Telecommunication provider(PSTN) and 2 mobile providers.
Questions are which media protocol should I use? How
many asterisk servers will I need? Are SIP phones/IAX
phones reliable for this kind of project and are they
available in such quantities? How many simultaneous
calls can I achieve if no transcoding is being done?
Keep in mind that their is no need for T1/PRI or any other type of external lines. Asterisk is to switch the voice data only.
I believe asterisk will be able to handle this without a problem and its the way forward for a country which is ages back in telecommunications. The client has been approached to buy a switching equipment that can handle the stated amount of lines for a figure of $500,000. Asterisk can definately beat that.
Jafar
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