[asterisk-users] large scale paging

[Philipp von Klitzing]

Hi!

> 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

Use multi-cast: Read the "See also" section at the bottom of this page 
and look at "MAST" and/or "app_rtppage". A couple of phone vendors have 
multi-cast support in their models.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+Page

http://www.voip-
info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+phone+snom#RelatedMulticastapp_rtppa
geAsterisk16orl

Philipp