Are you certain that this wouldn't be an issue if the phones had low re-registration intervals? Historically, I've seen the Asterisk registrar faceplant with throughput in excess of 5-7 registrations/sec, though I have no idea as to whether that holds true of newer releases.
-- This message was painstakingly thumbed out on my mobile, so apologies for brevity and errors. Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 235 E Ponce de Leon Ave Suite 106 Atlanta, GA 30030 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.alexbalashov.com On May 11, 2012, at 10:40 PM, "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpflem...@digium.com> wrote: > On 05/06/2012 01:39 PM, Paul Belanger wrote: >>> >> 800 SIP phones on one server? I wouldn't want to do it. Add a SIP proxy >> to your design and have it handle all your SIP. Then you can load >> balance across multiple asterisk boxes. You'll be thankful you did this >> at the start, as it will allow you to increase resources more easily. > > As has already been pointed out by others in this thread, 800 phones on a > single Asterisk server (using Asterisk 1.8.x or later and a decent spec > server) is really no problem. If all of those phones are going to be > subscribing to hints for a dozen or more of the other phones, then yes, that > could be an issue, as the amount of NOTIFY traffic would be quite high... but > for registration and normal calling, even if all these phones were in use at > once, I would not expect any issues at all due to performance. > > The other comments about being able to take down a server for maintenance and > not lose calling ability are certainly worth taking into consideration as > well, but if your planned deployment would allow for reasonable scheduled > maintenance windows, even that wouldn't justify the complexity of adding in > one SIP proxy (or a pair of them) to the equation. > > -- > Kevin P. Fleming > Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies > Jabber: kflem...@digium.com | SIP: kpflem...@digium.com | Skype: kpfleming > 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA > Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
