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size=2>P-3 Xeon 550 w/ 23 B-channels concurrent - 150 SIP
clients:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2> PID USER PR NI
VIRT RES SHR S <STRONG>%CPU</STRONG> %MEM
TIME+ COMMAND<BR> 9712 asterisk 15 0 81556
11m 4392 S <STRONG>18.9</STRONG> 0.4 11:19.06
asterisk</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Courier New">CPU is overrated.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Richard Amerman
[mailto:sirfifer@gmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:28
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk vs. Traditional
PBX<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Sorry to disagree, but unless you are transcoding or have a significant
AGI IVR or something, that server should be just fine. While I prefer a bigger
server for most installs, it is not because it is needed, more of a, money
well spent kind of thing. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If you are transcoding and have an IVR, the picture is diferent.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The box I have been using is the Dell 1850 with SCSI RAID. May be
overkill for most applications, but it was under $2,000 so it made sense to
me.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Richard<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 2/9/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Nora
Lavelle</B> <<A
href="mailto:nora@silverspringnet.com">nora@silverspringnet.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><BR>Hi
Dovid,<BR><BR>Thank you for the book. I'm already reading it.<BR><BR>I have
a dell 650 server, 1Gig of memory, 1 CPU (
3.07Ghz). What<BR>hardware would you recommend for the 200 users
w/ about 20 concurrent<BR>calls ?<BR><BR>As always I thank you so much for
your help.<BR><BR>Nora Lavelle<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: <A
href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</A><BR>[mailto:<A
href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</A>]
On Behalf Of Dovid<BR>Bender<BR>Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:02 PM
<BR>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<BR>Subject:
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk vs. Traditional PBX<BR><BR>I think your
problem is the Dell 650. What are the<BR>specs on it ? If you want a system
that can support <BR>200 users you will need to do a lot better than
that.<BR>Also you will be dealing with T1's/E1's and not POTS<BR>lines. I
think a good place to start (if you havent<BR>already) is the book that has
come out a while back. I <BR>have it on my server at <A
href="http://www.h6315.com/ast_book/">http://www.h6315.com/ast_book/</A><BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Dovid<BR>(I
posted my server and not from the publisher becuase<BR>I do not know thier
URL and I have email access only <BR>now.)<BR><BR>--- Nora Lavelle <<A
href="mailto:nora@silverspringnet.com">nora@silverspringnet.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>> Hi everyone !<BR>><BR>> So here's my
question of the day ! I need to make a <BR>> decision on
whether or not to go to a voip solution<BR>> or configure an existing pbx
(norstar) that my<BR>> company has available. We are a small
startup. I'm<BR>> wanting a solution that will support up to about 200
<BR>> people, with direct dial-in capability, up to about<BR>> 30
concurrent phone calls and good voice quality.<BR>> Right now I have an
asterisk deployment with about<BR>> 15 people on it. We have sipura 841
phones. The <BR>> biggest issue currently is voice quality. lot
of<BR>> complaints there. I have a dell 650 poweredge<BR>>
(single processory system), with a digium tdm400<BR>> card and 4 analog
lines plugged into it.<BR>><BR>> So here are my
questions:<BR>><BR>> * Is asterisk a good solution for my company ?
or<BR>> should I just install the traditional pbx and look<BR>> to
move to asterisk in a couple of years ? (I<BR>> personally would prefer
asterisk cuz I'm a unix<BR>> person not a phone person so from
a manageability<BR>> perspective i would love this )<BR>><BR>> * If
I were to go to an asterisk solution to support<BR>> about 200 people
with the requirements above what<BR>> hardware platform would you
recommend ? I'm<BR>> guessing I'd need a PRI line and a
different digium<BR>> card? Also would a 1cpu poweredge dell be enough ?
<BR>> or would that have to be upgraded too ?<BR>><BR>> If anyone
is running an environment similar to this<BR>> that can provide help I
would really appreciate<BR>> this. I'm having a hard time making this
decision <BR>> and would love to hear anybody's experience in a<BR>>
real time environment.<BR>><BR>> Thanks again this list ROCKS!<BR>>
Nora Lavelle<BR>><BR>><BR>> >
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