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

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

Vic a écrit :

> Hi, Zoa,
>
> yes, these calls are from SIP to SIP. We will have more than 3000 
> (more like 5000)concurrent calls come into system and we will need to 
> handle them.
>
What exactly do you do with these calls?

> We will also need an IVR function as well.
>
> I am not up to speed on Asterisk yet, so, I am a little bit confused 
> by all the different ways of doing it. Someone is talking about IAX: I 
> think it can only be used between Asterisk servers, right?
>
> In this particula rscenario we are getting calls as SIP directly from 
> carrier, so we will not need to do any conversion (I think). We just 
> route the calls to the destination, that's it.
>
If you are just handling SIP signaling and routing a solution such as 
SIP Express Router is much more appropriate than Asterisk for this kind 
of volume.

> Any suggestions on how to proceed? Can Asterisk do it?
>
> I read somewhere that it takes about 30 MHz per one voice channel, so 
> if we want to have 5,000 calls, we will need 150,000 MHz? Thats like 
> 50 3 GHz machines... Not going to fly with our people.
>
It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are transcoding 5,000 
simultaneous calls, it's going to cost a lot of money, wether you use 
Asterisk or not...

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