[asterisk-biz] Spec advice

[Mike Roberts]

Thanks for the insight, much appreciated.  I'll reach out off list when
needed.

Thanks again,

-Mike

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Steve Totaro <
stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel
> <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> >
> >  On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:18 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> >  >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-users@lists.digium.com/msg199936.html
> >  >
> >  > Depending on your configuration, such as codec translation, TDM, etc
> >  > will determine the amount of servers required.  I would think you
> >  > could probably get it done with three good servers doing strictly SIP
> >  > with same codec.
> >
> >
> >  One thing that the 2 public posts seem to not ask is how many people
> are
> >  actually in a given conference.  I had addressed this privately, along
> >  with a couple ideas on how to accomplish this.
> >
> >  1 speaker and 1000 listeners does not require the same load as 1000
> >  speakers, at least with 2 of the 4 major asterisk conferencing modules,
> >  two I am unsure about.  Sample size for muxing also affects
> >  performance.
> >
> >  Basically what was given results in guessing as to what was meant so
> >  other than saying "1000 G.711 calls requires about 100Mbps" its
> >  difficult to answer the other part of the question.
> >
> >  The features of the conference can also have an impact, for example
> >  recording the conferences.
> >
> >  the way you would build out a system for 100 10 person conferences is
> >  different than you would for a lecture style 1 speaker (or very few)
> and
> >  a bunch of listeners, which is different from a (in my opinion) totally
> >  unusable 1000 person all talking no one can hear anything conference.
> >
> >  I do however agree that a single system would not be able to handle
> 1000
> >  conference users with asterisk, although there are other open source
> >  solutions that could possibly do it pending the outcome of some of
> these
> >  unknowns.
> >
> >
> >  --
> >  Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com     Bret McDanel
> >  Belfast +44 28 9099 6461        US +1 516 687 5200
> >  http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you!
> >
>
> Very true, I overlooked those variables.  app_ices could be handy too.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
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