[Asterisk-Dev] Can * do this?

[Kris Cote]

Thanks all. This is very helpful.

Don't worry, its not telemarketing, I wouldn't have gone this far if it was.
Its kinda like a weather update over your phone. I don't know much more than
that, but,..

I will look into the Nufone.net, and either try to prepare a price for this,
or find someone to refer this guy to.

Thanks again all!

Kris Cote


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roderick Montgomery" <rod at thecomplex.com>
To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Can * do this?


> According to Kris Cote:
> > 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..."
>
> Presuming an rough average of 25 seconds -- fifteen second message plus an
> estimated ten seconds more for call setup, ring before answer/timeout, TAD
> OGM, and call teardown...
>
> That's 25 seconds per call cycle * 5000 calls = 125000 channel-seconds.
>
> To process 125000 channel-seconds within 10 minutes (600 seconds), you'll
> need just over 208 channels (about 9 T1s). IIRC, the greatest recommended
> concentration of Digium T1 interfaces in a single PC is 8 (184 channels),
so
> you'd probably need two asterisk servers to split the workload.
>
> If you relaxed your client's expectation just slightly in the interest of
> cost savings, you could get the same 125000 channel-seconds done using
just
> two Wildcard TE410Ps (eight T1s) in under twelve minutes.
>
> As a completely separate means of attacking the project, you might ask the
> good folks at Nufone.net about processing that call volume for you. At
their
> current rates, you could do about 20 of those 5000-call blasts before you
> paid for just the two TE410Ps.
>
>
> > Does this sound like some Asterisk can handle? If this were the only
app.
> > that ran, what hardware would best suit this?
>
> Don't skimp on your server hardware for the host system -- I run asterisk
on
> a solid Penguin Computing server; Steven highly regards Supermicro, which
> I've also used for other purposes with great success. Check the archives
for
> other tips. I haven't run density like 184 active ports on asterisk
before,
> but with your application, there's no codec transcoding or AGI overhead,
> either: just gen up the files in /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing.
>
> Absolutely, asterisk can handle this application -- assuming it's not some
> form of telemarketing, in which case asterisk will segfault and play dead.
>
> rm
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