[asterisk-users] Maximum call handling capacity on single server

[Olle E. Johansson]

15 feb 2010 kl. 17.36 skrev Steve Edwards:

> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Amit Patkar | Avhan Technologies Pvt. Ltd. wrote:
> 
>> I want at least 480 concurrent PSTN-IP calls.
> 
> 0) Cross-posting is a no-no.
> 
> 1) Not a -dev question. If you ever have any doubt a question belonging on 
> -dev, it doesn't.
> 
> 2) Putting 480 eggs in one basket is a recipe for a bad analogy about 
> breaking eggs and omelets.
> 
> I would put at least 4 systems in, each with a single quad card. What will 
> you do if a single component (disk, PSU, DIMM, etc) fails? How will you do 
> software updates?

Just to reflect on capacity: 480 calls is no problem at all for a quad-core CPU. The number of ISDN cards might have an impact on interrupt handling, depending on architecture. And there's always a question of eggs and baskets and stuff, but that's not about capacity.

/O