[asterisk-biz] Creating a monster...

[Martin]

You can use 2x 2u server with 2 cards each. It'll save on server cost.
Having 4 cards in one 3u/4u/tower server will probably work fine with
some dual quad core cpu's (8 logical cpu's)
but like previously pointed out it's a single point of failure.

Martin

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Matt Florell <astmattf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/09, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Matt King wrote:
>>
>>  > I've got a requirement to build a 16-port E1 ISDN Asterisk machine (so
>>  > that's a whopping 480 simultaneous calls).  I'm thinking of using 4x
>>  > TE405P or 4x TE410P to provide the 16 E1 ports required.
>>  >
>>  > There is no VoIP requirement at this customer.
>>  >
>>  > Does anyone out there have any experience you can share with building
>>  > and running a system like this?
>>
>>
>> I had a similar requirement about 5 years ago for a 24x7x365 adult chat
>>  site, except it was for T1s instead of E1s. Back then, the interrupt
>>  activity from the 4 cards was strongly advised against. I don't think that
>>  is an issue any more.
>>
>>  When we thought about it, 4 1u pizza boxes with 1 quad card each made more
>>  sense. The dialplan on these "telco servers" just answered the call and
>>  dialed the "application server."
>>
>>  If a telco server crashed, we only lost 25% of our capacity. Likewise
>>  (because we were running at less than 75% of capacity), we could do a
>>  "rolling upgrade" of the telco servers without any downtime. When we
>>  wanted to upgrade the application server, we changed the telco server
>>  dialplan to dial the backup application server.
>>
>>  You may want to take a look at external E1/T1 devices like red-fone.com.
>
> We have also built a 16 x T1 server, except we used two Sangoma
> octal(8) port cards.
>
> It is doable, but to reiterate what Steve already said, you would be
> better off breaking it out into separate servers.
>
> MATT---
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