On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:18 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg199936.html > > > > Depending on your configuration, such as codec translation, TDM, etc > > will determine the amount of servers required. I would think you > > could probably get it done with three good servers doing strictly SIP > > with same codec. > > > One thing that the 2 public posts seem to not ask is how many people are > actually in a given conference. I had addressed this privately, along > with a couple ideas on how to accomplish this. > > 1 speaker and 1000 listeners does not require the same load as 1000 > speakers, at least with 2 of the 4 major asterisk conferencing modules, > two I am unsure about. Sample size for muxing also affects > performance. > > Basically what was given results in guessing as to what was meant so > other than saying "1000 G.711 calls requires about 100Mbps" its > difficult to answer the other part of the question. > > The features of the conference can also have an impact, for example > recording the conferences. > > the way you would build out a system for 100 10 person conferences is > different than you would for a lecture style 1 speaker (or very few) and > a bunch of listeners, which is different from a (in my opinion) totally > unusable 1000 person all talking no one can hear anything conference. > > I do however agree that a single system would not be able to handle 1000 > conference users with asterisk, although there are other open source > solutions that could possibly do it pending the outcome of some of these > unknowns. > > > -- > Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel > Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 > http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! >
Very true, I overlooked those variables. app_ices could be handy too. Thanks, Steve Totaro _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
