[asterisk-users] Asterisk and E1 Cards

[Steve Totaro]

That is up to you.  I have never really looked at the pluses.

Personally, it is not for me, especially if you have to do a bit of
tweaking.

Thanks,
Steve

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Tarek Sawah <tareksawah at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  do you suggest buying a licensed Software from Digium?
>
>
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> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:53:16 -0400
> From: stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and E1 Cards
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Tarek Sawah <tareksawah at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>  Greetings List,
>
>
> Greetings
>
>
> i have a new question regarding Asterisk and E1 Cards
> a client of mine is requiring an Asterisk Server with 2 E1s.
> the scenario is the following
> they want 400 extensions to register with the system.. and required 64
> concurrent calls.
>
>
> Unless I am mistaking, or you are including internal calls, 2 E1 would
> handle 62 or 60 if PRI.  400 extensions should be no problem.  On the same
> LAN?
>
>
> added to it that they are expecting the system to have an IVR to do some DB
> querying.
> the setup I have in mind is a Core2duo Server with 3 GB Ram and a Raid0 and
> a TE220B card.
>
>
> Hard to say which would be better, two lower spec (cheaper) boxen setup
> identically, one as a cold swap.  Backup DB, conf, and whatever, nightly.  I
> have done this for many customers.
>
> RAID 0 is basically useless for Asterisk and sets yourself up for double
> chance of disk failure.  RAID 1 is the way to go.
>
>
>
> we have not faced this need from a client as we usually provide SIP
> Services only.. so my questions are the following
> 1- how many calls my setup will be able to handle? and if it won't handle 2
> E1s what is the best server i can get for that?
>
>
> You can handle that easily unless you are doing heavy codecs like G729 or
> recording every call.
>
>
>
> 2- E1 supports Ulaw and Alaw codecs so we won't be needing G729 nor G723
> encoding and decoding? or we will have to use such codecs? (I'm concirned
> about the System resources)
>
>
> You should have said that first ;)  A pentium 4 2.8ghz could handle this
> without breaking a sweat.
>
>
> Thank you in Advance for your help and support.
> regards
> Tarek
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
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