Brent, hope your problems go away soon.<br><br>I am actually interested in the topic of this post. Ast 1.6 vs 1.4. We are using asterisk 1.4.2 for a SIP only based configuration. Currently we have about 200 SIP users which can cause approximately upto 3 simultaneous calls. We are mainly concerned about the performance and stability of asterisk when the load increases. Our server can handle about 100 simultaneous calls having 3Ghz Dual Intl-Xeon Processor with 2GB of ram using G711 codec, and around 30 simultanoeus calls using G729 codec. This we are expecting from the hardware. We are planning to accomodate about 5,000 users on this server. <br>
<br>Before the release of 1.6 i heard that its architecture is going to be different from 1.2 and 1.4. Recently i read an article about <a href="http://freeswitch.org/node/117">freeswitch</a>, which explains how its functionality is like asterisk but it can perform better than asterisk due to its architectural differences. The main developer for freeswitch is anthony who also codes for asterisk. He explaines why the architecture of asterisk needs to be changed which requires massive recoding, but nobody took the step to do it. Thats why he started freeswitch on his own to redifine the architecture, so that the performance and reliability of the switch should be better than asterisk. In his article he has already said that freeswitch beats asterisk by a factor of 10.<br>
<br>If asterisk architecture is being rewritten in 1.6 to achive the same goal, then we will be happy to use 1.6 instead of shifting the whole system to freeswitch. We dont have any problem or issues with 1.4.2 yet. We are mainly concerned about the its performance when the load increases. If 1.6 is more reliable under heavy loads then we would like to use it.<br>
<br>If anyone can put some light on this topic, all i can say is thanx for sharing your thaughts and experiences.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Brent Davidson <<a href="mailto:brent@texascountrytitle.com">brent@texascountrytitle.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Just an update. I tried updating to the newest Rhino Release firmware<br>
1.15 and newest stable driver version <a href="http://2.2.6." target="_blank">2.2.6.</a> It works OK with<br>
zaptel-1.4.9.2 and compiles OK with <a href="http://1.4.10.1" target="_blank">1.4.10.1</a> but when compiled against<br>
zaptel <a href="http://1.4.10.1" target="_blank">1.4.10.1</a> Asterisk does not see any zap channels. I'm currently<br>
running one branch office with the upgraded firmware, driver,<br>
zaptel-1.4.9.2 and Asterisk-1.4.20.1. I'll see how everything goes<br>
there and may upgrade the other offices if it works OK.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<font color="#888888">Brent<br>
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