Erick Perez wrote:
Hi, we have set up a small project in a school the following way:
SITE_A(4 port analog to ip
g729)------ADSL_ISP1-------ISP2--------Asterisk-----PSTN
Site A has 1 Megabit of bandwith (up 512kilobit down 1 megabit)
The asterisk box gets internet service via a wireless antenna. 1 Mbit
of up/down bandwith

Comments:
So far, this means that I will need licenses for the 729.
asterisk only supports 20ms sampling on g729 so 4 channels will need
96 kilobits at 20ms sampling (or is it kilobytes??) for the internet
bandwith.
i cannot use CRTP because i cant be sure if the ISP's routers are CRTP aware.
Installing ADSL from ISP1 on the asterisk place will give a clear advantage

Please correct any of my prior statements if wrong.

should I maintain packet latency below 300ms or 150ms?

The objective should be to keep latency as low as possible, however some folks do run asterisk via satellite which as a very lengthy latency.

How can I measure this latency all the way to the asterisk?

Several ways depending on how accurate a measurement you want. A simple ping would give a starting point. A much more expensive way is to use VoIP analysis software to measure it, but be prepared to spend at least $1,500 (US) to do that.

Should I ping from SITE_A to the asterisk box with 8k packets?

If you want to emulate a sip/iax packet, use a packet size of about 200 bytes.

If I can't install ADSL for the moment, will the above setup work?

Probably a bigger issue to address relates to what "other" traffic might be passing across the dsl and/or wireless channel that might be consuming bandwidth and impacting the rtp packets. Broadcasts originating from devices outside your control (other isp users), hackers attempting to access your ip addresses (at both ends), data traffic between your two endpoints, etc, are just some thoughts of items using a portion of the bandwidth available.

Might also think about jitter (eg, variations in latency) and what that might do to your end to end communications.

There are other low bandwidth codecs available that could be used instead of g729. Some include ilbc, g726, gsm, etc. Each consumes different bandwidths, and each provide a slightly different quality of audio. See the wiki for more detail on what each consumes for bandwidth on the wire.



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