[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Soekris

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Adam Goryachev wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 11:10 -0500, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> 
>>Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday 30 May 2005 11:28, Adam Goryachev wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>How many channels could this board deal with when purely translating
>>>
>>>>from G.729 IAX2 <-> G.729 SIP....
>>>
>>>
>>>That's not a codec translation; Asterisk can simply take the IAX2 audio frames 
>>>and stuff them into RTP frames without actually deconstructing the audio 
>>>itself and recoding it.
>>
>>	Exactly.  I have people doing at least ~30 calls in that manner. 
> 
> 
> Could you describe the hardware/software and general config when you had
> ~30 channels working as above? I assume you mean with no affect to the
> audio quality/etc as well?

	Sip phones (Cisco 7960 - SIP) -> AstLinux (Soekris) -> Network (IAX)-> 
Asterisk Server -> PSTN

	Audio was great on all calls.

	Does this make any sense?


>>That's just glorified packet forwarding (okay not really, but I can't 
>>think of anything better).
> 
> 
> Well, I hoped it would be quite similar to NAT... ie, fiddle with some
> bits in the packet, but the majority of the packets contents is the
> same. Though I also figure SIP <-> IAX2 does actually take 1 packet per
> channel being trunked, combine it into a single packet, and then send it
> off.

	I don't think this person was doing trunking, but I could be wrong. 
Also, it will definitely have a performance impact, but probably not a 
whole lot...

>>>As far as "how many" -- this is where you must do the research and post 
>>>results.  There is no data on it at this point, mostly because people just 
>>>haven't done the research.  :-)
>>>
>>>-A.
>>
>>	I know that I keep using this as an excuse, but with Asterisk there are 
>>just too many variables to be able to answer questions like "How many 
>>calls x x?"
>>
>>	Codecs, protocols, trunking, re-invites, echo can., etc, make it very 
>>difficult to come up with numbers.  I want to do an "astertest" on this 
>>hardware, but have just not had enough time...
> 
> 
> Well, up until yesterday afternoon, I was going to get three different
> mini-ITX systems, and go ahead and test it, however, now I'm wondering
> what the real-life reliability difference is between a via mini-itx
> system, the aforementioned Soekris board, and a standard (decent) PC is.
> I've seen many standard PC's last 5years +, then again, I've also seen
> plenty of failures, though these are generally related to the HDD, fan,
> or power supply. So, I'm wondering does anyone have real-life
> comparisons on the failure rate of a PC compared to the failure rate of
> some of these options??
> 
> Regards,
> Adam

	Five years for a phone switch is not that good...  Anyways, I'm not the 
person to give you the data you are looking for.  I just don't have it.


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Kristian Kielhofner