[asterisk-biz] Asterisk Performance as a B2BUA

[Igor Hernandez]

"The test was configured to simulate a wholesale VoIP operation with
three minute call durations and an average of two call retries for every
completed call."

Jai Rangi wrote:
> Good work, What was the length of each call.
> 
> -Jai
> "Buy SIP DID with 20 channels at www.didforsale.com
> <http://www.didforsale.com>"
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Jim Dalton <jim.dalton at transnexus.com
> <mailto:jim.dalton at transnexus.com>> wrote:
> 
>     In 2007 we published the results of a performance test of Asterisk
>     as a Back
>     to Back User Agent (B2BUA).  Based on the helpful feedback from the
>     mailing
>     list we improved our test procedures and re-ran a new performance
>     test case
>     of Asterisk configured as a B2BUA.
> 
>     Our test platform hosting Asterisk was a $1000 Dell PowerEdge 840 with a
>     Quad Core Xeon X3220, 2x4M cache, 2.40 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB and 4 GB RAM.
>     Redhat V5 was the operating system.  The test was configured to
>     simulate a
>     wholesale VoIP operation with three minute call durations and an
>     average of
>     two call retries for every completed call.  This was an "out of the box"
>     Asterisk configuration with default settings and no optimizations.
> 
>     We found that Asterisk on the test server could handle approximately
>     1000
>     simultaneous calls with no codec transalation.  This works out to be
>     about a
>     $1 per port investment for a B2BUA platform.
> 
>     When calls were transcoded from G.711 to G.729, the call capacity
>     fell to
>     320 simultaneous calls.  With the added cost of of the G.729 codec
>     royalty
>     and the lower call capacity, the cost increases to approximately
>     $13.50 per
>     port
> 
>     You can download the test results and all the test plan details from:
>     http://www.transnexus.com/White%20Papers/Performance_Test_of_Asterisk_v1-4.h
>     tm
>     <http://www.transnexus.com/White%20Papers/Performance_Test_of_Asterisk_v1-4.htm>
> 
>     Jim Dalton
>     VoIP Routing, Accounting, Security
>     1.404.526.6053
>     www.TransNexus.com <http://www.TransNexus.com>
> 
> 
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Igor Hernandez
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