[asterisk-users] large scale paging

[jon pounder]

Mark Willis wrote:

This could potentially create a very weird audio situation where the 
delay between adjacent phones is audible so instead of acting like 
loudspeakers in parallel on a conventional system, it just sounds like a 
bunch of people talking at once and is not understandable.



> 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
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