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do you suggest buying a licensed Software from Digium? <br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:53:16 -0400<br>From: stotaro@asteriskhelpdesk.com<br>To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and E1 Cards<br><br><br><br><div class="EC_gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Tarek Sawah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tareksawah@hotmail.com">tareksawah@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;">
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Greetings List,<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Greetings<br> </div><blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;"><div>i have a new question regarding Asterisk and E1 Cards<br>
a client of mine is requiring an Asterisk Server with 2 E1s.<br>the scenario is the following<br>they want 400 extensions to register with the system.. and required 64 concurrent calls. <br></div></blockquote><div><br>Unless I am mistaking, or you are including internal calls, 2 E1 would handle 62 or 60 if PRI. 400 extensions should be no problem. On the same LAN?<br>
</div><blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;"><div>added to it that they are expecting the system to have an IVR to do some DB querying.<br>
the setup I have in mind is a Core2duo Server with 3 GB Ram and a Raid0 and a TE220B card.</div></blockquote><div><br>Hard to say which would be better, two lower spec (cheaper) boxen setup identically, one as a cold swap. Backup DB, conf, and whatever, nightly. I have done this for many customers.<br>
<br>RAID 0 is basically useless for Asterisk and sets yourself up for double chance of disk failure. RAID 1 is the way to go.<br> </div><blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br>we have not faced this need from a client as we usually provide SIP Services only.. so my questions are the following<br>1- how many calls my setup will be able to handle? and if it won't handle 2 E1s what is the best server i can get for that?</div>
</blockquote><div><br>You can handle that easily unless you are doing heavy codecs like G729 or recording every call.<br> </div><blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br>2- E1 supports Ulaw and Alaw codecs so we won't be needing G729 nor G723 encoding and decoding? or we will have to use such codecs? (I'm concirned about the System resources)<br></div></blockquote><div><br>
You should have said that first ;) A pentium 4 2.8ghz could handle this without breaking a sweat.<br> </div><blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Thank you in Advance for your help and support.<br>regards<br>Tarek<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro <br>+18887771888 (Toll Free)<br>+12409381212 (Cell)<br>+12024369784 (Skype)<br><br /><hr />Get free photo software from Windows Live <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/online/photos?ocid=PID23393::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_PH_software:082009' target='_new'>Click here.</a></body>
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