Colin Anderson wrote: >> I concur with your approach, but "Tier 1" means as little here as it >> does when evaluating Internet backbone carriers. could you expand on >> what evaluation criteria you use? I'm going to be pre-speccing some >> stuff myself this month... > > Sorry I should have been more clear. A good Asterisk install needs a > holistic approach to use a hippy dippy phrase. A Tier 1 server, which is a > midrange to high end name brand server from the Big 3 (Dell, HP/Compaq, IBM, > am I missing someone?) is usually highly optimized for bus bandwidth > although that design was intended for a different use - usually massive disk > I/O. As well, a Tier 1 server will have two seperate, independent PCI buses > and this to me is a critical feature - it allows you to completely separate > your TDM traffic from network, disk I/O etc. On my big production Netfinity,
nothing a good opteron motherboard from tyan can't do (something like http://tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html ) > 5. Tuning of Asterisk box itself - this cannot be under emphasized. This is > a very important step and tuning methodologies vary according to distro, > skill of the admin, and particular circumstances. I've learned *way* more > than I ever wanted to about processor affinity sinc I started using > Asterisk. I'll be interested in more pointers on that one > 6. Termination of PSTN. Basically I would never do an Asterisk install where > I was forced to do something stupid like aggregate a dozen Centrex lines or > some mickey mouse deal with FXO ATA's or whatever except for a hobby or > prototype install. PRI, BRI, IAX or SIP, don't mess around with anything > else. sometimes you don't really have a choice. some providers don't know what PRI is _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
