On 10/2/09, Steve Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Matt King wrote: > > > I've got a requirement to build a 16-port E1 ISDN Asterisk machine (so > > that's a whopping 480 simultaneous calls). I'm thinking of using 4x > > TE405P or 4x TE410P to provide the 16 E1 ports required. > > > > There is no VoIP requirement at this customer. > > > > Does anyone out there have any experience you can share with building > > and running a system like this? > > > I had a similar requirement about 5 years ago for a 24x7x365 adult chat > site, except it was for T1s instead of E1s. Back then, the interrupt > activity from the 4 cards was strongly advised against. I don't think that > is an issue any more. > > When we thought about it, 4 1u pizza boxes with 1 quad card each made more > sense. The dialplan on these "telco servers" just answered the call and > dialed the "application server." > > If a telco server crashed, we only lost 25% of our capacity. Likewise > (because we were running at less than 75% of capacity), we could do a > "rolling upgrade" of the telco servers without any downtime. When we > wanted to upgrade the application server, we changed the telco server > dialplan to dial the backup application server. > > You may want to take a look at external E1/T1 devices like red-fone.com.
We have also built a 16 x T1 server, except we used two Sangoma octal(8) port cards. It is doable, but to reiterate what Steve already said, you would be better off breaking it out into separate servers. MATT--- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
