[asterisk-users] Asterisk concurrent calls count

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 10:56:00 Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:45:09AM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> > I do however, think that Digium should provide some rough concurrent
> > call figures and I guess that is how I got off topic on this SwitchVox
> > tangent.  There are some common feature sets, especially when looking
> > at PBX functionality with or without Zap or transcoding hardware that
> > could be published (with a disclaimer of course).  There are also
> > common server platforms but that is more of a moving target.
>
> Sure.  But can you understand the point Tilghman was making there?
> They quote those numbers as "cover our ass" numbers; their intention is
> to avoid running up their tech support expense too much.

An additional point worth making is that the numbers for Business Edition
aren't based on installation on a very specific machine, where we've tweaked
operating system and Asterisk variables for optimal performance, for the
express purpose of coming out on top of stated benchmarks.  They are call
numbers that you can expect will be stable, even if you aren't good at finely
tweaking Linux systems, as, I suspect, most people running production systems
are not.

I can't say that Digium will never publish benchmarks, but I believe that most
people who are concerned with the proper functioning of whatever they've come
to use Asterisk for (call routing, PBX, IVR, or something else) take
benchmarks with an extremely large chunk of salt.

-- 
Tilghman