[Asterisk-Users] Over 10,000 lines. Will asterisk manage?

[joachim]

I'm confident asterisk can manage such a setup, but you will need a damn 
good consultant to set it up.  :)
(You cannot buy just a huge asterisk machine, you will need some kind of 
cluster to do this).

Joachim (zoa)


jafar mohammed wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I am to come up with a proposal to setup a network of
>over 15,000 lines. I would like to scale down the
>costs by using Asterisk as the main switching
>equipment. Let me give u the full scenario.
>
>1. Fiber optic cables are to run from the central
>exchange to over 2 kilometer radius at selected
>distribution points.
>2. Every subscriber will have a CAT5 cable terminating
>at his residence/office. This will provide both
>Internet/Voice and maybe video to the subscriber.
>3. SIP phones will be used by the clients, codec
>U-Law. Bandwidth is no problem since the fiber network
>will provide over 10Gbit.
>4. Fiber will run to the main Telecommunication
>provider(PSTN) and 2 mobile providers.
>
>Questions are which media protocol should I use? How
>many asterisk servers will I need? Are SIP phones/IAX
>phones reliable for this kind of project and are they
>available in such quantities? How many simultaneous
>calls can I achieve if no transcoding is being done? 
>
>Keep in mind that their is no need for T1/PRI or any
>other type of external lines. Asterisk is to switch
>the voice data only.
>
>I believe asterisk will be able to handle this without
>a problem and its the way forward for a country which
>is ages back in telecommunications. The client has
>been approached to buy a switching equipment that can
>handle the stated amount of lines for a figure of
>$500,000. Asterisk can definately beat that.
>
>
>Jafar
>
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