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> My current asterisk box is a Quad Xeon 450 (2mb cache) IBM Netfinity > 7000. About how many SIP extensions (normal usage) would this machine > handle? think about concurrent connections not how many extensions. there are no hard and fast rules but i would think that the box you have described could support +- 70 concurrent connections. up the RAM to the max the box can handle and you could squeeze out a few more maybe 10-15. > > What about redundancy? How would I implement an auto-failover Asterisk > box at a remote location, or could I? you should think about having an * server at each distinct location and using IAX trunks to tie everything together. i wouldnt think about doing this from one box. also, i am not sure about whether you can have a primary and secondary SIP proxy with any openly available phones out there. > snip> > The only thing that stands out that might not work so well is the 29 > pots lines in a single location. Ideally you could install a PRI in > this location, but if not you'll need some other less common hardware > to handle all those lines. i agree with matt here. probably have so many pots because the system in place didnt support t-1/pri. just a guess but a t-1/pri is most likely less expensive from a MRC perspective. > > On the IP side, the calls don't actually use up that much bandwidth, > probably 30kbits/sec/call if you use ILBC. The only thing you need to > do is make sure that all the RTP packets are delivered with a higher > priority. Either custom queuing or bandwidth reservation or both will > make everyone's life better. echo here Jason Kawakami _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
