[asterisk-biz] Large System

[Aaron Daniel]

We use the rule of thumb "less is more."  The more dynamic you can make 
your dialplan, the quicker it'll be to respond.  The more extensions your 
dialplan contains, the longer it takes to reload, and their was sometimes 
a noticable delay in setting up the call, since it was searching through 
all the extensions and priorities.  We've moved most of our non-critical 
extension information out of the dialplan, so now instead of having 
something like 1000 extensions, we have 93.  Everything else is dynamic in 
that if we add an exchange that's considered local, we don't have to 
reload the dialplan.  If you program every single phone into the dialplan, 
it's bound to croak at some point from the sheer volume of how many 
extensions you have in there.  I think when we originally started with 
having all those programmed in, the server would literally drop off the 
system for a few seconds, disrupting any phone calls that needed to be put 
through.

Aaron

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 11:52, Aaron Daniel wrote:
>> system.  We've found that asterisk is more than capable of handling the
>> call load, as long as you've got the dialplan and database's programmed
>> right.
>
> That sounds great, but what does "programmed right" mean in this context?  I'm
> no greenhorn when it comes to Asterisk but I'm curious as to what rules of
> thumb and guidelines you follow for large rollouts.
>
> -A.
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Aaron Daniel
Computer Systems Technician
Sam Houston State University
amdtech at shsu.edu
(936) 294-4198