With Asterisk, you're looking on the order of 50 - 150 reliable calls per server if you're serving up media. Asterisk has a very computationally costly call setup/teardown time, so if you're making a lot of short calls, you'll be in the lower end of that reliability range.
I would recommend looking into FreeSwitch if you're looking for high thruput, it uses the open source Nokia SIP stack "Sofia", and beats asterisk hands down in performance and SIP compliance. Also, if your application requires some special sauce, it is far easier to write it for FreeSwitch than for Asterisk. The C code for FreeSwitch is very readable, and the plug-in architecture is well thought out. I was able to write a fax tone detector in less than a day in 100 lines of C! Cheers, spd On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Mike Derouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day everyone... > I have a client that has a software/hardware application that > frequently requires very large numbers of outbound calls to happen > very quickly. The calls are important and are tracked within their > application. They are currently hosting at one of the major telco's > - paying a handsome fee. > I was thinking this would be a good job for some Asterisk folks. I > was brought in to assist with the Telco DS3 negotiations. I was > thinking that having lots of PRI''s/DS3's sitting idle 90% of the > time just to handle the spikes is awful wasteful - that if we hosted > at 151 Front, and paid a per cent call cost it would work out much > better. The calls are important though - they need to make > thousands of calls very quickly. > Obviously the thread about co-lo is very relevant - but I am also > hoping for any experience users have with this. My client isn't > doing marketing calls, but I would presume that these types of > applications are a good, and common use of Asterisk? How many > simultaneous calls would a good server be able to dial out at one > time? We keep at least 4 to 6 PRI's busy all the time, with another > 15+ for peak times - so the call volume is fairly large. In an > Asterisk world how would this scenario be 'costed'? Just a per > minute rate (with volume commitments presumably?) > > Thanks! > Mike > -- | It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what | you know for sure that just ain't so. -- Mark Twain | | The Toronto Asterisk Users Group | Join the discussion group by visiting http://taug.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
