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

[asterisk at anime.net]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> On 02/02/06 06:13 asterisk at anime.net said the following:
>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Kristian Larsson wrote:
>>> Indeed, a FreeBSD machine doing just routing
>>> lookups can handle somewhere around 600Kpps.
>> Not to nitpick, but freebsd has routed 1M+pps using commodity hardware.
> thanx, i wanted to point this out but didnt want to inadverntly start a linux 
> vs freebsd flame war.

1Mpps is no longer only the realm of 'big iron'. linux can do it on 
commodity hardware too. there's no magic in 1Mpps anymore.

of course thats just routing the packets. actually doing something with 
the contents is a different matter entirely. i doubt theres any hardware 
which can handle 5,000 simultaneous voip calls on a single box.

-Dan