[asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan??

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Douglas, it seems to me that you don't understand how the extensions
of an asterisk dialplan relate to real life. As an example:
-= 135 extensions (657 priorities) in 31 contexts. =-
This from a box (yes one box) that has just 10 phones, and 6 lines.
Every s extension is considered an extension. Which makes every macro
a context and at least one extension. If one has:
exten => s,n,Dial(whatever)
exten => s,n,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
Then that context (macro) has at least 2 extensions.
Calling Voicemail in my dialplan has 7 extensions (yes just pressing
the message button). For real life it's only 1 extension.

Another example:
This is for a system with around 75 different offices hosted on the
same box, using 3 T1s, and each office with at least 2 extensions, the
biggest one being around 15 extensions.
-= 1110 extensions (2279 priorities) in 138 contexts. =-

That's for around 90 phones and 150 published active phone numbers
(some of the phone numbers are just IVRs). Why would the fact that
it's on one box matter? If the main incoming T1 is down (which
happens), there is no incoming calls anyhow. What would clustering
help in this case?

Why would someone have to build a new box if a system went down? A
system should never be built with a single point of failure. The only
thing that should be allowed to bring down a system is a fire. The CPU
fan should be noticed making noise way before it dies, which gives
enough time for a planned shutdown, in any case that doesn't require
(if/when the CPU dies) rebuilding the whole box.
Any asterisk system that has more than 50-60 users should NEVER be
built in a way that if it doesn't get physically damaged it needs to
be rebuilt if/when it goes down.

On 10/11/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> I see some awefully large dialplans here. Are people putting all this on one box or clustering it amongst a number of boxes? I think any business is going to be pretty annoyed if they suddenly lost access to 16,000+ extensions, and had to wait for a new box to be built and configured.
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>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: George Pajari [mailto:George.Pajari at netvoice.ca]
>         Sent: Tue 10/10/2006 10:48 PM
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>         Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan??
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>         Single server, dual P3 866Mhz, 1.5Gb, TE407P, two PRIs to telco, one PRI
>         to fax server, one PRI to T.38 gateway:
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>         1791 extensions (4378 priorities) in 240 contexts
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