[Asterisk-Users] asterisk with big number of extentions.

[Anton]

you can do it with a well setup cluster
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Adamson" <radamson at routers.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk with big number of extentions.


> > We are thinking of making network of about 25000 extension numbers.
> > These extension will be SIP phones. Asterisk will be connected to some
VoIP
> > gateways through H323 which will allow to
> > terminate calls.
> >
> > Can Asterisk handle such kind of load?
>
> No problem, as long as none of them make any calls. What you really wanted
> to ask is, how many simultanous calls can a single * box handle, and that
is
> a function of exactly "how" you configure/engineer it:
>   1) sip phones that have canreinvite=yes use * for call setup only
>   2) sip phones that have canreinvite=no force the rtp traffic through *
>      consuming a greater amount of processing resources
>   3) sip phones that are configured with different encoding (codec)
schemes
>      are forced through some translations somewhere. Is that * in your
case?
>      If so, see #2.
>   4) some sip phones (or adapters) don't handle sip invites very well, and
>      must pass all rtp traffic through *. If you use those, see #2.
>   5) some sip phones lurking behind NAT boxes require all rtp traffic to
>      pass through *. See #2.
>
> > Can it be done on one server?
>
> Probably not given the answer above.
>
> > What kind of server do we need for making it work?
>
> High reliability, fast processor, disk speed less important, high
throughput
> ethernet, and a good consultant or two to help. ;) See the wiki pages.
>
> To properly engineer "any" pbx, you will have to start with some
reasonable
> call/traffic statistics, and engineer around those numbers. Asterisk is no
> different.
>
> Rich
>
>
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