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<DIV><SPAN class=031220522-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>my own
criticism. I just talked with a friend about erlang tables.
completely blows away all the stuff I just wrote below...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031220522-20122005></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Shawn
Porter<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 4:47 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'<BR><B>Subject:</B>
RE: [Asterisk-Users] IVR Capacity<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Serge,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> How are you going to be building this server? I am not
going to claim to be any sort of expert on </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>sizing, but I do have some experience as an IVR
designer/developer.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
one of your previous posts you mention E1 cards. In order to get 300
msgs at once you would need to</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>be
running 10 E1s, is this reasonable?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>How
many questions are there in your survey, how long is an average call going to
take?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>say
you have 5 questions, and a complete call will take approx 2
minutes</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>allow for call-setup and call-breakdown - 15 sec</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>should allow for 26calls per hour per channel @ 30 channels = 780 calls
hour using just 1 E1</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
this case you would only have, at maximum, 30 prompts playing at any one
time. From what I have seen in this mailing</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>list
there are servers out there doing a lot more than that (but I do not know what
the hardware is).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
have built systems running at that level of traffic using the Contarra IVR
platform and running on a P4-1.6GHz with 512MB on a dialogic
card.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Surely an * box with a decent CPU & Memory can handle it no
problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Now
that I have gone stated all this for the world to criticize, please let me
know if I have made any critical mistakes/assumptions.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Shawn</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>P.S
Contarra & Envox I know, Asterisk I am learning.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=906492821-20122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Serge
Schumacher<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 20, 2005 4:23 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Asterisk-Users] IVR Capacity<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=FR-LU
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=FR-LU
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Do you think * could play around
300 voicemenu messages simoultanously?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regs,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Serge<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>