[Asterisk-Users] Server load capabilities

[Eric Wieling]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 12:08, C. David Kading wrote:
> I am trying to asses the possibility of setting up Asterisk at a collocation
> service provider (ELI) for supplying VOIP to about 15 different
> customers/locations. Is it possible to use one server to handle this load?

It depends on how many calls you will be having at a time, if you are
using analog or VoIP phones, what codecs you use, etc.  You didn't look
at the mailing list archive discussions or the Wiki pages about Asterisk
Scaling, did you?

> Is there a call management GUI (Windows), which will work well in this
> situation and allow administration? Is there a call client GUI (Windows),
> which will work well in this situation?

No.  There are several proto-projects to do this.  Look in the mailing
list archives.  Operator Panel (also see the mailing list archives) is
pretty good as an operator console.

> Has anyone implemented such an installation and if so how do you handle QOS
> when using DSL or Cable at the customer location.

For the most part you don't.  You can control QoS on OUTBOUND packets
from the remote site by using a router or a linux box (acting as a
router) that provides QoS, but there's no way to make the ISP do QoS
when sending you packets.  This is less of an issue than it seems at
first because most of the time you have 1Mbps or more bandwidth from ISP
-> USER, but usually only 256K from USER -> ISP.

TEST TEST TEST.  If you do not build a prototype system to work all the
issues your project will fail.

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