[asterisk-users] VoiceMail and SMS

[Tim S]

How many users are you thinking of supporting?  For a large-scale setup you
might want to take a look at Kamailio as a front-end - if you even think
you're going to get a high user volume you may want to start out with a
Kamailio front-end so that you don't have to start over from scratch when
it outgrows an Asterisk only setup.

I prefer Debian/Ubuntu over RedHat/CentOS - but if you're thinking of using
this in a company environment, I'd recommend engaging with your IT people
to find out what THEIR preference is.

Planning capacity with the information you've provided is difficult - is
the network card 10Base-T, Gigabit, 100-gigabit?  Do you only have 56kbps
dial-up service to the server, or a full 10Gbps internet connection at a
carrier-neutral colocation datacenter on a fiber backbone?  Are the CPU
cores 15-year-old Pentium or a current Broadwell-E?  Are the CPU cores real
or on a massively over-provisioned VM host?  Do you have to do a bunch of
transcoding inbound and outbound?  Is the machine doing anything other than
voicemail?  In general, the maximum capacity is the point just before when
the quality begins to drop (about 90-95% total system load).  Not very
scientific I know, but the answer is extremely
hardware/infrastructure/setup dependent.

I haven't personally played with any of Asterisk's internal SMS
functionality, but I have been meaning to.  Since the earlier days I've
relied on the email functions to handle interfacing notifications.
Asterisk can send emails as a notification, so I configured the default
email to a notification handler, which would do a speech recognition on the
voicemail file, send an SMS using an SMSC (Nexmo in my case), and then send
an email to the user with a text transcript of the voicemail as well as the
audio file as an attachment.  I'm sure there's a better way now, I coded
this up a while ago.  My way is probably not the "right way", but like many
things with computers there is the way that works today, the way that works
better tomorrow, and eventually the best practice way that emerges after a
few years.  Gotta keep maintaining your work.

-Tim


On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Joaquin Alzola <Joaquin.Alzola at lebara.com>
wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I am asking too many questions because we would like to use Asterisk first
> as a proof of Concept and check from there were it goes.
>
> - Does the Voicemail have the option of SMS notification on new drop
> messages (we have an SMSC so we will use that one).
> - What is the best Linux OS to install Asterisk in?
> - What throughput does it stand 1 machine with about 8GB Ram and 4 CPUs?
> We plan to add  couple but just checking for a single one.
> - Does it have a max capacity?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> BR
>
> Joaquin
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