[asterisk-biz] Asterisk Performance as a B2BUA

[Jim Dalton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Trixter aka Bret McDanel
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:23 PM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Asterisk Performance as a B2BUA
> 
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:10 -0400, Jim Dalton 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.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> was this the test that originally did 3000 channels @ 8.5cps? 
>  Or was that a different one?

The original test was run on a dual Xeon dual core server and recorded a
maximum of 1500 simultaneous calls.  That test was flawed, however, because
audio was only streamed one-way for each call.  In this test, music was
streamed from source to destination and echoed back from the destination to
the source for each call.