[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk on Dell blade servers

[Alistair Cunningham]

Kevin & Matthew,

Thank you, that's pretty much what I expected.

Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
+44 (0)7870 699 479
http://integrics.com/


Matthew Simpson wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone used these? Any feedback on whether they're 
>> good/bad/indifferent? What scalability do you get on simple SIP-SIP 
>> forwarding either with or without RTP passing through Asterisk?
>>
> I think IBM and HP both make better blade products, personally, but 
> that's like arguing about Linux distributions :-D
> 
> Asterisk 1.2 handles a DS3 of SIP-SIP forwarding easily for us on a 
> P4-3.0/RAM-1GB, and could certainly easily do more.  It takes about 1% 
> of CPU and 6% of RAM with 672 channels.
> 
> With RTP passing through, 200 channels on a typical P4/1GB solution 
> seems to be about the breaking point.  [G.711, no transcoding]
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