[Asterisk-Users] hardware requirements of asterisk

[Chris Albertson]

He sais "sound cards" so I assume he is using softphones
or possably the console phone.  But then he sais "two
users making call"  Does this mean four phones?  if so
and you are using sound cards how is this done?

Details please.  

--- Rich Adamson <radamson at routers.com> wrote:
> > I have been playing with 2 Asterisk boxes for testing purposes, it
> has 
> > been going very well. The 2 boxes are PII celeron 400 (HP Deskpro)
> with 
> > sound cards and lan. I have iax connecting the 2 boxes.
> > 
> > For making cals and testing out recorded message for 1 connection
> it was 
> >   working quite well. However, when I stressed it a bit with 2
> users 
> > making calls, we started to here voice degradation and cracking
> noises. 
> > However, top shows cpu is 94% idle. I am suspecting the network.
> However 
> > it is 100M switch and I have not had any clue. I suppose it should
> at 
> > least be able to handle 10 calls similtaneously for even a small
> office. 
> > So what is the recommended spec for 5 users or 10 users?
> 
> Without any other factual detail, best guess is half vs full duplex
> problem
> on one or more of the devices (phones, PC, etc).
> 
> Assuming you're using sip phones for testing (and we really don't
> even know
> that for sure) and depending upon exactly what parameters you've
> applied
> for each sip phone definition within asterisk, calls between phones
> are set 
> up by asterisk. Asterisk then instructs the two phones to communicate
> between 
> themselves, and bows out of the audio session. So, if you really are
> using
> two sip phones, then you have a networking problem between those two
> devices and not with asterisk.
> 
> For anyone to offer suggestions, you really need to provide more
> facts.
> 
> 
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