[Asterisk-biz] Forklift a 2000 phone PBX - 5000 calls up - WAY up

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Zoa wrote:

> Strange thing, those gigabit nics for x86. Strange thing those linux
> routers capable of handling a lot of packets. Strange things those 2000
> simultaneous calls on rtpproxy on x86.
rtpproxy and ser is not asterisk.

> Dont blame it on the hardware, blame it on the sysadmin if your dual
> xeon can only handle 80mbit/s on its network card.
handling 80mbps of RTP traffic is not the same as handling 80mbps of 
static files.

> A xeon has 6,4 gb bandwidth, which would mean that if we followed your
> logics, we could roughly do 5000 calls using g729 codec on a machine
> with similar hardware. (as the g729 uses less bandwidth than the g711,
> you are not encoding anyway).
> 
> Didnt you say last time you would publish the actual test setup 'in a
> week' ? Still waiting here.
> 
> I cannot check your claims of 5000 calls as i dont have an SGI, but
> everything i can check in your press report sounds like complete *...
> Gee i wonder why im a non believer for those 5000 calls.
> 
> Give us the details of the test and make me happy by proving me wrong.
I agree with you, however, you also need to pay attention to details...