[Asterisk-Dev] Can * do this?

[Wade J. Weppler]

Hmmm...

15 seconds plus ring time plus (modest) 15 seconds for ring+OGM = 30 seconds per message.  That's 2 messages per minute, or 20 messages in 10 minutes, per channel.

For 5000 messages in the same amount of time, you'd need 250 channels or 11 T1's.

The best setup would be to install two boxes with two T400P Quad-span T1 cards (6 T1's in one box, 5 in the other).  They could then talk IAX or TDMoE between them, and share a dialplan.  Or, setup a third box to "arbitrate" the T1 boxes.

For 5/6 T1's, you'd need some pretty heft hardware.  Look at dual CPU's and decent RAM (Xeon 2.4, 512MB).  Hard drive speed/size won't be important except on the box doing arbitration.

Hope this helps.

Oh yeah, and please remove my phone number from "list of phone numbers"  :)


-wade

-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Cote [mailto:admin at stormserver.net] 
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:47 PM
To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] Can * do this?

Here is a n excerpt from a client of mine.
 
"...black box that would send out 
a list of phone numbers and a message that would be delivered.  Need speed 
to deliver 5000 15-second messages in 10 mins.  That would be 15 seconds 
plus ring time and OGM time for voice mailboxes..."
 
 
Does this sound like some Asterisk can handle? If this were the only app. that ran, what hardware would best suit this?
 
Thanks in Advance
 
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Kris Cote
Director of Internet Engineering
Storm3 communications / StormServer Internet