[Asterisk-Users] 5000 sip clients (voip phones)

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depends on how much they're calling each other...  if they're all using 
reinvites, ulaw, and only calling each other, I don't see why that box 
wouldn't be able to handle it, you just won't have any fault tolerance.

If you provide more information about the project, I'm sure you'll get 
some good recommendations.

Vikram Rangnekar wrote:

>In a pure voip envoirnment which uses a single codec say ulaw across all its
>phones can asterisk support 5000 voip sip phones on a dual / single xeon with
>1 gb ram. If all the phones support reinvite (Send RTP stream directly to
>each other).
>
>Or would I need more than 1 system to support 5000 phones in the enviornment
>described above.
>
>also I am not talking about the phones using meetme or voicemail or anything
>just calling each other after authenticating with the asterisk server using
>SIP.
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