[Asterisk-Dev] Commercial deployments of Asterix

[mirza sahib]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Mayank Mishra wrote:

> 1)Could anyone please tell me how to simulate a commercial level PBX
> (handling about 300 simultaneous calls) using Asterix.

look at asterisk/sample.call

> 2)Assume that I have installed Asterix on a machine , now what hardware
> do I use for supplying as input a large number of simultaneous calls?

you can use another * box if you like ...

>    From what i have read on the digium website about their products, the
> interface cards usually handle at most 4 analog telephones.

but digium also have E1/T1 cards and beyond a certain number you really do
NOT want to be doing analog lines (echo, manageability and a hell of a
mess of wires contribute to this)

>    If I have to commercially handle a very large volume of calls what do
> i use to simulate an actual PBX.

another * if you really want to have an external load factor, but why?

>   Please concentrate more on the hardware part of the configuration.

please read the documentation a lot more thoroughly, and also read the
wiki end-to-end (www.voip-info.org) which has a ton of information

AND

please don't post this to the -dev list which is strictly for asterisk 
development (and NOT deployment) questions, which belong on the -users

welcome to *, it'll make all your telephony requirements simple to 
accomplish, but you'll have to give it and yourself time (or hire a 
consultant ... dime a dozen :)

- wasim