Thanks for the insight, much appreciated. I'll reach out off list when needed.<br><br>Thanks again,<br><br>-Mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Steve Totaro <<a href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com">stotaro@totarotechnologies.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;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel<br>
<<a href="mailto:trixter@0xdecafbad.com">trixter@0xdecafbad.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:18 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:<br>
> > <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-users@lists.digium.com/msg199936.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-users@lists.digium.com/msg199936.html</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Depending on your configuration, such as codec translation, TDM, etc<br>
> > will determine the amount of servers required. I would think you<br>
> > could probably get it done with three good servers doing strictly SIP<br>
> > with same codec.<br>
><br>
><br>
> One thing that the 2 public posts seem to not ask is how many people are<br>
> actually in a given conference. I had addressed this privately, along<br>
> with a couple ideas on how to accomplish this.<br>
><br>
> 1 speaker and 1000 listeners does not require the same load as 1000<br>
> speakers, at least with 2 of the 4 major asterisk conferencing modules,<br>
> two I am unsure about. Sample size for muxing also affects<br>
> performance.<br>
><br>
> Basically what was given results in guessing as to what was meant so<br>
> other than saying "1000 G.711 calls requires about 100Mbps" its<br>
> difficult to answer the other part of the question.<br>
><br>
> The features of the conference can also have an impact, for example<br>
> recording the conferences.<br>
><br>
> the way you would build out a system for 100 10 person conferences is<br>
> different than you would for a lecture style 1 speaker (or very few) and<br>
> a bunch of listeners, which is different from a (in my opinion) totally<br>
> unusable 1000 person all talking no one can hear anything conference.<br>
><br>
> I do however agree that a single system would not be able to handle 1000<br>
> conference users with asterisk, although there are other open source<br>
> solutions that could possibly do it pending the outcome of some of these<br>
> unknowns.<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
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><br>
<br>
</div></div>Very true, I overlooked those variables. app_ices could be handy too.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<font color="#888888">Steve Totaro<br>
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