[asterisk-dev] rtp scalability improvement...

[Igor Neves]

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Anton wrote:
> I would say that more than one server is not good, when 
> there is performance issues only. having processing 1000 
> calls/s on fast hardware and good clustering options will 
> bring asterisk to a new usage levels. Industry levels. And 
> possibly Industry would involve it's developers too. In 
> normal case that will lead asterisk to became a monster 
> app, able to do most things needed in telephony :)
> 
> In the comparisions of price/performace - Asterisk can 
> win... but total luck of H323 support kills any advantages. 
> MVTS costs $3500 per 30 concurent calls (E1) and I would 
> love to replace it with Asterisk even in cost of extra 
> servers. But as I said - there is no H323 in Asterisk.
> 
> Regards,
> Anton
> 
> On 20 March 2006 03:42, SteveK wrote:
> 
>>On Mar 19, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Anton wrote:
>>
>>>On 20 March 2006 03:15, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>
>>>same. BUT in smaller scale. OR with more servers at
>>>once. Which is not good.
>>
>>Why is that a problem?
>>
>>It seems to me that while there may be scalability
>>improvements that can be made to improve particular
>>aspects of performance on a given system, how much can
>>you expect this gain to be?  2x?  3x? 10x?
>>
>>The only way to scale to very large installations is to
>>address horizontal scaling, and see why more servers is
>>"not good", and make it "good".  Ensure that it is easy
>>to make clusters of asterisk servers, where it's easy to
>>bring additional nodes into a cluster, bring nodes out,
>>and take over from failed nodes.   Even in the present
>>state of asterisk scalability, how much does the cost of
>>the hardware running asterisk figure into the cost of
>>most deployments? Is it significant?  It doesn't seem to
>>be a major player when asterisk is used as a softswitch,
>>where the station costs (at $70- $400 per station)
>>dominate.
>>
>>-SteveK
>>
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H323 it's dead, i think the "world" will use sip, just wait.

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