[Asterisk-Dev] Benchmark numbers....

[John Todd]

At 3:23 PM -0500 on 5/2/05, Brian West wrote:
>Obviously if you have 10k users you're not going to use Asterisk at 
>all.... but its something to work on.
>
>/b
[snip]

While you may not choose to put 10k users on Asterisk, I have.  Many 
more, as a matter of fact.  Some of these systems were simply 
media/application servers, while some handled registrations as well. 
While I agree that Asterisk needs some help on registration volumes 
and scaling, I'd not sell it short so quickly.  As a community, it's 
good for us to shoot for carrier-grade numbers since we'll solve a 
lot of the other problems for smaller users as a by-product.  At the 
moment, the only reason I still would use SER would be for the 
registration and call processing/loadbalance speed - Asterisk 
provides all that I need for back-end call processing.  If we 
(Asterisk community) can stamp out the registration issues, get the 
concurrent call volume up in the ~20,000 range on a single chassis 
(excluding media), and get calls-per-second in the ~300 range, then I 
think my concerns are solved... but we've got a ways to go.  ;-)

JT