[Asterisk-Users] 5,000 concurrent calls system rollout question

[Dinesh Nair]

On 02/01/06 09:29 Damon Estep said the following:
> Ok, now lets go for 5000 of them. 160kbps*5000=800000kbps or 800mbps -
> full duplex.
> 
> Have you ever seen a NIC or switch that can run GigE full duplex at 80%
> utilization and not at least start to fall apart?

additionally, 5000 simultaneous SIP calls at 20ms intervals will send,

5,000 * 50 * 2 = 500,000 packets per second (full duplex).

not too many boxes can handle such packet load, in spite of the relatively 
small packet sizes.

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