[asterisk-users] Page app, Polycom IP 601, 60 SIP peers, Interesting Issue

[JR Richardson]

Hi All,

I have a pretty standard Asterisk PBX setup with 60 SIP Peers, mostly
Polycom 501's and a receptionist phone, Polycom IP 601 with 3 attached
sidecars and Buddy Watch enabled monitoring all other SIP phones.

The problem occurs when a group (all SIP peers) Page is called.  Not
always but sometimes when the Page is executed, the IP 601 will become
unreachable from Asterisk.  So when the receptionist hangs up the
page, the BYE doesn't get back to Asterisk to release all the Page
channels so they stay open.  I have to restart Asterisk to release all
the open SIP Channels.

What I think is happening is when all the SIP peers are paged,
Asterisk sends 60 hint notifications to the IP 601 and the phone is
overloaded and can't respond to SIP POKE or process the BYE message
back to Asterisk properly.

I'm wondering if I upgrade to a new IP 650 with a faster processor,
will this eliminate the issue?

Has anyone experienced this or have ideas for resolution or further
troubleshooting?

Thanks.

JR
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JR Richardson
Engineering for the Masses