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

[Dustin Wildes]

Dinesh Nair wrote:

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> On 02/01/06 09:29 Damon Estep said the following:
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>> Ok, now lets go for 5000 of them. 160kbps*5000=800000kbps or 800mbps -
>> full duplex.
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>> 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?
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> additionally, 5000 simultaneous SIP calls at 20ms intervals will send,
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> 5,000 * 50 * 2 = 500,000 packets per second (full duplex).
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> not too many boxes can handle such packet load, in spite of the 
> relatively small packet sizes.
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Why not bond multiple NICs together to do a load balance output?  Would 
provide redundancy as well.