[Asterisk-Users] RE: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk as a Voice ConferenceServer

[Cullin J. Wible]

We used to run a conference server on a PII 400Mhz with 512MB of RAM. We had
2 separate conference rooms with 15 users each (30 simultaneous) calls with
no problem.

We have since upgraded it to a P4 2.0Ghz with 1GB of RAM (just because it
was getting old) and it still works just fine with even higher call volumes.

No degradation of quality either that we can see.

Cullin 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kanuri, Seshu
(Company IT)
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:51 PM
To: Iain Barker
Cc: Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] RE: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk as a Voice
ConferenceServer

Iain Barker Wrote:
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>Our experience with over 10 or more participants 
>in a single Asterisk conference was that quality 
>degraded quite rapidly.
 
Is this really true as there were many in this list 
who had confirmed that they have used the conference 
bridge for a lot more connections than what you have
Suggested as the upper limit.

Logically the conference bridge should work at the 
same capacity as the number of calls Asterisk can 
handle in a given configuration.

Though your solution looks impressive and probably is
the best for upto 30 simultaneous calls, I am more
interested in knowing what it takes for Asterisk to be 
able to handle the 100 channels I need to run 
Simultaneously.

Seshu Kanuri



-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Barker [mailto:yoshac at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 1:41 PM
To: Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT)
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk as a Voice Conference Server

Seshu,

Our experience with over 10 or more participants in a single Asterisk
conference was that quality degraded quite rapidly.

The solution was a dedicated hardware bridge for conference mixing

http://www.aastra.com/enterpriseip/pro_238.asp



Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT) wrote:
>
>I am working on a bid for a New York State requirement where we need to

>provide access to 100 Simulataneous Investors to get into a conference 
>with the Pension Funds Officer for discussions.
>
>As you might have guessed it, I am presenting an Asterisk enabled 
>Conference solution.
>
>One of the Bid requirement is to provide three verifiable references 
>who have implemented a similar voice conference solution for more or 
>less 100 simultaneous calls, with a possible recording of the entire
call.
>
>If anyone has implemented this on a commercial scale, I am looking for 
>referrals at this time, and a possible co-operation in future.
>
>I would appreciate if you can send me your name, contact Info, company 
>name and a one para description of the solution and the name/type of 
>client whom/where this solution is running at this time.
>
>A couple of minutes of your time is needed when the guys at Albany may 
>like to speak to you for a confirmation that Asterisk is real and it 
>can do the 100 people conference, what they are looking for.
>
>  
>

I do thousands of conferences a day using asterisk as the backend, most
are in the 5-50 user range, but many are in the 150+ range. (but, I use
app_conference, not app_meetme for them).

I can give you my contact information off-list if you want it.

-SteveK
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