--On Saturday, November 13, 2004 00:11 -0800 jafar mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I have to agree with another person who said you'll need a decent consultant to set it up...and software to manage it.
As for that sort of quantity of SIP devices, the only ones I know you'd be able to get for sure in that quantity would be Cisco. 79XXs or the ATA's. Motorola ATA's are also an option. Outside of that I don't know personally.
keeping it all uLaw is probably good in this situation also because transcoding is a pretty heavy hit on the Asterisk server CPU. Without transcoding I think having more than 500 *active* sessions per box should be easy, probably hit a couple thousand even, but that'd have to be tested.
With SIP devices it's not the number of devices - well, mostly, at some point the number of registration requests becomes an issue - but the number of active conversations in the system. You can run a virtually unlimited number of SIP clients on a single box, but they couldn't all talk at once, unless you wanted a Chernobyl style melt-down.
Probably be about $100 or $200k in PC or other hardware. Keep in mind that you have to have something with a USB controller for 2.4 kernels to source your timing off of, or in 2.6 it can use the RTC I believe. In a pure IP environment you might be better off going to 2.6 anyway.
Just my $0.02 _______________________________________________ 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
