[Asterisk-Users] max asterisk load

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Thursday 03 June 2004 13:54, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> So the suggestion is 2 or 3 decent P4 machines and spread the cards
> around. Maybe use a forth machine to hold all voicemail. Consider 1
> machine with the the PSTN connections and and 2 channel banks. Machine 2
> and 3 handle only channel banks with 2 cards apiece, Machine 4 is
> voicemail and possibly the SIP interface. Machine 4 only needs an
> ethernet card, raid, and a decent amount of ram. Machine 2 and 3 need a
> decent ethernet card and decent ram, maybe an IDE drive each. Machine 1
> needs decent memory, ethernet card, and possibly just an ide drive.

Just a note -- wouldn't machine 4 need some kind of Zap interface for timing 
for voicemail?  I realize you can get timing from the RTP stream for SIP but 
what if the SIP phone was doing silence supression?  Is ztdummy considered 
stable enough for production use?

-A.