[asterisk-users] large scale paging

[Mark Willis]

I thought of that too, but the phones will be spread over a large number 
of rooms in several buildings, so that won't be too much of an issue.

Mark Willis



On 2010-02-05 15:55, jon pounder wrote:
> Mark Willis wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> My concerns are:
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>> - 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?
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>> Any suggestions or war stories are appreciated.
>>
>> Mark Willis
>> Cartama Consulting LLC
>> 210 698 5097
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