[Asterisk-Users] Meetme scalable to 300 people?

[Geoff Nordli]

asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com <> scribbled on :

> What is the difference between meetme and app_conference?  I
> am looking to
> conference a mere 10 people.  Just getting into some testing
> here.  I have
> ordered a $229 dell (on sale now) 2.5ghz celery/512mb
> ram/80gb hd/cdrom/etc.
> for a server and was thinking about ordering three PAP2-NA's
> for testing.
> Is there a better adapter for the price ?
> 
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> Patrick Campbell
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> Geoff Nordli
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Meetme scalable to 300 people?
> 
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I am looking at providing a conference for up to 300 people and was
> wondering if anyone has scaled meetme to 300 people.
> 
> Here are some points:
> 
> 1)  I am using an IAX2 gateway hosted on a VOIP service provider.
> 2)  The machine is hosted at the providers site so one has to
> assume that
> bandwidth is not going to be an issue.
> 3)  Everything is coming in as ULAW so we won't need to do
> any transcoding.
> 4)  I am using an X100P for timing.
> 5)  The only thing that this machine will be used for is conferencing.
> 
> I haven't bought the machine yet so I would be interested
> what people used
> for hardware as well.
> 
>> From what I have seen in the archives Jeremy scaled to 185 people
>> with a
> Dual Xeon, but I don't know how it was configured or how much
> headroom was left on it.
> 
> I am aware of app_conference but I would like to do this with meetme.
> 
> Have a great day!
> 
> Geoff
> 
> --

Hi Patrick.

I haven't used the PAP-NA's yet, but they are supposedly a clone of the
Sipura's which are supposed to be OK.  Depending on the # of FXS ports you
are going to scale out to you can't beat the cost per port of a used channel
bank and a T100P card.

App_conference is here:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+app_conference

It is designed to scale better than meetme.  It looks like the primary
difference is it only does the transcoding once per each codec, and supports
silence detection.

Geoff 




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