[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Hardware Recommendation

[Daniel Salama]

Well, I don't think I'm ready to spend that much money :)

I understand your point regarding that load depends on usage. 
SIP_Agents are simply agents answering calls. Average call length would 
be about 8 minutes. During some of these calls (maybe 25%), agents will 
conference the call (PSTN channel) with internal IVR script.

I like Scenario 6. Will look into that further. However, if the above 
information gives you more grounds to make additional comments, please 
do so :)

Thanks,
Daniel

On Apr 29, 2005, at 10:21 AM, mattf wrote:

> If price would truly not an option just get one of the Signate 
> Telephony
> 5000 servers(http://www.signate.com/pbx.php) They are about $18,000 and
> allow you to have upto 5000 SIP streams go through it. You could have 
> that
> be your gateway and do the SIP->IAX through that machine and scale 
> upto 100
> T1s if you want.
>
> But that is a bit steep. So on to your choices. I would really say 
> that the
> setup you choose will depend on what kind of users you have as well as 
> how
> often you need to change/add users to the system and how the users are 
> using
> the system at what times. Any of them that you listed could work 
> depending
> on how they are used, but in some cases you may not want to use some 
> of the
> scenarios listed because they would either be incapable of meeting your
> needs or overly complex to manage.
>
> The easiest and cheapest one would actually not be listed:
> Scenario 6:
> Direct SIP->Zap on two separate servers half SIP users on each server
> PSTN <--2xT1--> A1 <----> SIP_Agents
> PSTN <--2xT1--> A2 <----> SIP_Agents
>
> There is really no reason to have another 2 servers running IAX to the 
> T1
> servers, and this is simple and easy to set up and involves only 2 
> machines.
>
> The next setup I would recommend would be Scenario 4, although you 
> will have
> to get a machine with a fast/wide BUS(like an Apple G5) to handle ever
> increasing numbers of SIP->IAX streams as the system would grow.
>
> If you can explain more about what kind of use this system will have I 
> can
> give a better recommendation.
>
> MATT---