[asterisk-users] Network architecture

[Steve Totaro]

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:42 AM, michel freiha <michofr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Alex,
>
> Thanks for the reply..Can you please list some of these solutions that you
> talked about on your reply?
> Even I would like to ask if you had a bad experience with asterisk
> regarding simultaneous calls limitation and If I'll send 1k calls to an
> asterisk machine with the appropriate hardware what will happen?
> Kindly note that no trans coding is done, just pass thru codec
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>wrote:
>
>> No, asterisk on conventional hardware can handle at most a few hundred
>> calls.
>>
>> I would strongly discourage the use of Asterisk purely as a transit
>> element for billing. Just because a2billing is available does not mean
>> you should. Far more scalable solutions are easily available.
>>
>> --
>> Sent from mobile device
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:19 AM, michel freiha <michofr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm planning to build a VOIP solution for handling SIP calls coming
>> > from endpoints registered on a specific SIP proxy...I made some
>> > research regarding network architecture and found out that the best
>> > solution is to use OpenSips as SIP proxy for registration and local
>> > calls between registered endpoints and use asterisk server with
>> > a2billing for PSTN calls, rating, routing and all other stuff plus a
>> > MySQL database...
>> >
>> > This architecture convinced me, but I have some questions regarding
>> > asterisk and I need asterisk expert answers in order to take
>> > decision...
>> >
>> > 1- Is there any Software limitation on asterisk regarding number of
>> > simulltaneous calls?
>> > 2- Can 1 asterisk server handle 5000 simuitaneous calls if I have
>> > the appropriate hardware?
>> > 3- It's etter to have one asterisk server for hadling 5k
>> > simultaneous calls or divide the load on different servers?
>> >
>> >
>> > Waiting your reply
>> >
>> > Regards
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