[asterisk-users] estimation on phone network capacity

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:52 +0100, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> mark morreny schrieb:
> 
> > I am working on deploying voip for my company and would like to seek some
> > advice on the number of E1 lines we need to rent.
> 
> E1 is not VoIP. :-)

It is if provisioned for 30 channels of concattenated data :)

> > Our telco told us that
> > there can be at most 30 concurrent channels on an E1 line.  Typically, what
> > is the maximum number of DIDs that we can allocate to that E1 line before
> > users get frequent "all lines are busy"?  We are running a support center
> > with mostly incoming calls.  Is there any rule of thumb that are typically
> > used for this kind of estimation?
> 
> How about logging how many concurrent calls you have _today_?
> And I'd say it depends on how much "lost" calls you can tolerate.

Yeah, this is 100% dependent on call volume...

> Regards,
>    Philipp Kempgen
>