[Asterisk-Users] Commercial deployments of Asterix

[Peter Svensson]

[On a general note, the original post should not have been sent to
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not solutions based on it. That topic is for asterisk-users.]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Mayank Mishra wrote:

> 1)Could anyone please tell me how to simulate a commercial level PBX
> (handling about 300 simultaneous calls) using Asterix.

That is quite a few calls. You may need more than one machine. 

> 2)Assume that I have installed Asterix on a machine , now what hardware
> do I use for supplying as input a large number of simultaneous calls?
>   
>    From what i have read on the digium website about their products, the
> interface cards usually handle at most 4 analog telephones.
>    If I have to commercially handle a very large volume of calls what do
> i use to simulate an actual PBX.

For a large scale connection to the pstn a multiport T1/E1 card is the way 
to go. the TE410P and TE405P from Digium gives you 4 ports. 

For large scale phone connections I can think of two options. Either use
E1/T1 ports and channel banks to hook up analog phones or use VoIP phones. 

It is an interesting large-scale deployment you are talking about. Without
knowing more about your situation it is hard to give anything but very
general remarks. Given the scale you may also want to contact a comercial
Asterisk consultant.

Peter