[asterisk-users] large scale paging

[Mark Willis]

Has anyone done any large scale intercom deployments with Asterisk? I've 
been asked about building a system to one-way page 500 phones 
simultaneously from a single server.

My concerns are:

- My limited math capabilities suggest 41 Mbps of RTP traffic, which 
seems like a lot, plus asterisk would be taking a single input stream 
and exploding it out to 500 endpoints.
- There are 500 near-simultaneous INVITEs being sent. Can the SIP 
channel handle that?

Any suggestions or war stories are appreciated.

Mark Willis
Cartama Consulting LLC
210 698 5097