[asterisk-dev] Astricon: Serious Asterisk Testing

[Jeremy McNamara]

I have been given access to a Spirent Abacus for the duration of 
Astricon.   I intend to put this box to good usage for the benefit of 
Asterisk.

Along with the Abacus, I intend to bring a couple/few mini-itx and 
embedded platforms, so we can easily load Asterisk down and still 
acquire debug information others will need to solve any problems.

I am attempting to acquire a couple higher end machines (dual xeon or 
perhaps a dual, dual-core system), for some serious high-load testing, 
but I may not be able to acquire the appropriate hardware in time.

If anyone already has any higher-end machine(s) they can let us abuse 
for Astricon, let me know and I will ensure proper credit is given.



We need to determine a set of tests to run.

It is my intention to simulate a typical enterprise/provider environment 
by having discreet components of the test operation - sip proxy (ser), 
sbc, gateway, soft-switch.

We will send various different types of common and uncommon traffic 
patterns to the test system, so we can measure and report on the 
performance of Asterisk on each component.

I would also like to put Asterisk's SS7 implementation to some serious 
testing, but very honestly I have limited SS7 skills at this time.

The Abacus also supports H.323 and SCCP, so we should also dedicate some 
time to these protocols as well.


Lets discuss,



Jeremy McNamara