[asterisk-biz] Asterisk Performance as a B2BUA

[Jai Rangi]

Good work, What was the length of each call.

-Jai
"Buy SIP DID with 20 channels at www.didforsale.com"


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Jim Dalton <jim.dalton at transnexus.com>wrote:

> In 2007 we published the results of a performance test of Asterisk as a
> Back
> to Back User Agent (B2BUA).  Based on the helpful feedback from the mailing
> list we improved our test procedures and re-ran a new performance test case
> of Asterisk configured as a B2BUA.
>
> Our test platform hosting Asterisk was a $1000 Dell PowerEdge 840 with a
> Quad Core Xeon X3220, 2x4M cache, 2.40 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB and 4 GB RAM.
> Redhat V5 was the operating system.  The test was configured to simulate a
> wholesale VoIP operation with three minute call durations and an average of
> two call retries for every completed call.  This was an "out of the box"
> Asterisk configuration with default settings and no optimizations.
>
> We found that Asterisk on the test server could handle approximately 1000
> simultaneous calls with no codec transalation.  This works out to be about
> a
> $1 per port investment for a B2BUA platform.
>
> When calls were transcoded from G.711 to G.729, the call capacity fell to
> 320 simultaneous calls.  With the added cost of of the G.729 codec royalty
> and the lower call capacity, the cost increases to approximately $13.50 per
> port
>
> You can download the test results and all the test plan details from:
>
> http://www.transnexus.com/White%20Papers/Performance_Test_of_Asterisk_v1-4.h
> tm<http://www.transnexus.com/White%20Papers/Performance_Test_of_Asterisk_v1-4.htm>
>
> Jim Dalton
> VoIP Routing, Accounting, Security
> 1.404.526.6053
> www.TransNexus.com
>
>
>
>
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