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

Zoa zoachien at securax.org
Sun Apr 17 14:29:58 MST 2005


Alex,

RTPproxy and ser is indeed not asterisk but it is handling RTP, at over
80mbit/s
All i wanted to say with that is that the limit he thinks he's reaching
on the dual xeon is not the memory bandwidth as he is way below that limit.

/Z



alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Zoa wrote:
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>>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.
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>rtpproxy and ser is not asterisk.
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>>Dont blame it on the hardware, blame it on the sysadmin if your dual
>>xeon can only handle 80mbit/s on its network card.
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>handling 80mbps of RTP traffic is not the same as handling 80mbps of
>static files.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Give us the details of the test and make me happy by proving me wrong.
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>I agree with you, however, you also need to pay attention to details...
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