A 2u server with a single processor and 1GB of memory will
more than suffice. RAID for the voicemail store.
Considering the application, we'll be happy to set it up
for you once you have the hardware. Contact me off list.
William Boehlke
Signate
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Aniffyidea if you expect any volume of calls.
When the CPU is busy converting files to a images you may experience problems
with call quality and MOH quality, up to and including the call dropping
entirely.
Servers are much cheaper than the time you may otherwise
spend trying to debug
You can do a version of failover with phones that support a
backup registrar. They will repoint themselves to a second server
then.
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MahinSent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:56 AMTo:
Asterisk-UsersSubject: [Asterisk-Users]
If you want stable use external gateways and two servers
set up to fail over to each other.
Second best is two two T1 cards so you have something
leftwhen one of them fails.
If you want to bet your job ona 4 T1 card, Sangoma
has excellent echo cancellation and a million hour MTBF.
Do it backwards. Play a message saying they can continue to hold or press 1
to go to voicemail.
If they press 1, drop them into voicemail.
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Hansen
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 11:57 AM
To:
http://www.signate.com/siguser.php
Signate's user panel is installed on several tens of thousands of
extensions. From the Voicemail inbox screen, users can play voicemails over
their computer speakers, and delete them when they are finished with them.
If the PBX has caller ID enabled, the Caller
been the case... test gear is a small market, and
expensive. Just look at the MSRP of new high-end HP Oscilloscopes if
you want to get a picture of price-gouging.
JT
At 11:21 AM -0800 2/2/06, William Boehlke wrote:
Signate has claimed 5,000 streams, or 2,500 calls, on a single Telephony
Of William
Boehlke
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:29 PM
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Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] RE: 5,000 concurrent calls system
rolloutquestion
One of our Telephony Server 5000 modules will throughput between 2,000 and
2,500 SIP calls with streams
Signate has claimed 5,000 streams, or 2,500 calls, on a single Telephony
Server 5000. The throughput has little to do with Asterisk and a lot to do
with hardware design and operating system tuning. Our very minor code
changes were returned to the project last year.
The benchmark we used to
In our experience, it's not a bandwidth limitation. If you do nothing
special, interrupt servicing for a single NIC on our high throughput
hardware maxes at something in excess of 1,000 calls when you are keeping
the streams. I don't believe you can get even that far on a PC server, but
we
It's been done, by a Genesys partner in San Francisco. I spoke to them last
year.
Unfortunately, I don't recall the company name but you can probably track
them down from the Genesys site.
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300 calls depends on your mix of work.
If you are just switching calls and have hardware echo cancellation you can
put 300 calls across a fast server with adequate RAM. With that much
traffic, we would use two servers so you can fail gracefully when one of
them goes down.
If you're transcoding,
We train ten to fifteen people every month in our three day course, and
tried offering the exam for a while.
The practical exam is pretty easy. The written exam, in our opinion, is too
hard and not very relevant to the life of an Asterisk expert.
Our take is, wait until the exam is revised so
$39.95 retail.
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edition of my * book has been released
You can save a little money with analog phones however if that saving is not
an issue business class VoIP phones from providers like Polycom and Cisco
have more features and much of the time better call quality.
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] FXS or VOIP
On 1/11/06, William Boehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can save a little money with analog phones however if that saving is
not
an issue business class VoIP phones from providers like Polycom and Cisco
have more features
The 830s are nice but limited because they do RAID on a card and have but
one suitable PCI slot. So you can have an interface card or RAID, but not
both.
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I thought they had several available PCI slots.
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Boehlke
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We have more than a hundred Dell servers in production at customers. We use
them because we can have them serviced easily, just about anywhere.
They are principally 1850s and 2850s, or their predecessors, in T1 and
larger applications.
The reported IRQ problems are easily avoided if, for
, 2005 at 05:44:40PM -0800, William Boehlke exclaimed:
We ship multiple Dell servers every week. Haven't tested the new cards
but generally you're fine with Digium T1 if you limit yourself to one
card per server. When we are less than T1, we use an external SIP gateway.
Which external SIP gateway
Unless you've got yourself in a trap of needing some more modern version of
mysql, do you need to care what version of RH you're using? Install CentOS 3
and upgrade it when ABE supports it. We've got hundreds of them in the
field.
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We ship multiple Dell servers every week. Haven't tested
the new cards but generally you're fine with Digium T1 if you limit yourself to
one card per server.When we are less than T1, we use an external SIP
gateway.
Redundency depends on your attitude towards cost and risk.
If you have
The specifics are normally a matter of public record in the jurisdiction
where the suit was filed. The suit states the patents involved and the
infringement claim. A reading will narrow the speculation significantly.
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, for that matter) on the PBX
without a single instance of instability from either of those applications.
You don't state what you define as extremely high call volumes but if you
expect to be pushing the limit of your server capacity, just add another
one. Hardware is cheap enough.
Good luck!
William
Why would you want it to do that? If the call is not complete, the system
cannot know the duration. Call duration is the heart of a call detail
record.
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Kanthi
Sent: Thursday, September 15,
Of course analog PBXs did not require reboots. On the other hand, my Call
Manager PBX had to be rebooted weekly. Windows, you know.
When a Asterisk-based PBX is built from two or more servers, each of which
has capacity to handle the load, a periodic reboot of one of the servers
does not have
Viking makes everything you might need for paging and door control.
www.vikingtelecomsolutions.com
William Boehlke
Signate
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That's a very ambitious first system.
You may have trouble between the 1850 and the TDM400P. The 2850 should be
workable.
Consider saving recorded calls in a database on a separate server. It will
be simpler to build a retrieval interface that does not conflict with PBX
functions.
William
with RAID 1 for roughly the same cost so we're not vulnerable to a
motherboard failure.
William Boehlke
Signate
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to split the load between two boxes.
William Boehlke
Signate
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OsmondSent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:15 PMTo: Asterisk
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial DiscussionSubject: RE:
[Asterisk-Users] quad t1 / 1U rack server combos
Why do you want to do that?
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] inter-asterisk meetme
Hi,
If there are 5 asterisk servers on
1850s work fine with T1 cards but not with TDM. If you need
to use an 1850 use an external gateway.
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FerleySent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 12:56 PMTo:
asterisk-users@lists.digium.comSubject: [Asterisk-Users] Dell
Commercial plug.
Signate is the North American distributor for XC-AST, call queue monitoring
and reporting software for Asterisk. It allows managers to monitor queues
and agents in real time, or to analyze queue activity for given periods.
Real time facilities allow managers to monitor:
$20,000 including phones will cover a fully redundent system with dual
servers, each capable of carrying your call load. Half of that is for fifty
business class hard phones.
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The voice side of a fractional T1 is usually delivered as analog
connections.
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Above 5,000 you start reaching theoretical limits on a single network
segment.
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Subject:
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If your users are business people they ratio to 1100 simultaneous business
calls and you will need 6-9 Lintel servers, again depending on the
conferencing load and the transcoding.
William Boehlke
Signate
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Yes, we license one. The recording app places calls in mySQL by extension,
and time date.
The query interface retreives calls by the same criteria, and permit
deletion of recordings by the same criteria.
If interested, contact me off line.
Regards,
William Boehlke
Signate
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If a business application, that's more than 3,000 calls. Two of our
Telephony Server 5000s will handle the load with complete redundancy.
If a consumer application, it's about 500 calls. We would use one TS 5000 or
three dual Xeon Lintel servers.
Regards,
William Boehlke
Signate
Great advice. Fortunately it is 3rd level support to telco customers.
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Subject: RE:
Dell sells a remote management card for under $400 that enables remote
reboots. I know there are others out there but have no experience with them.
William Boehlke
Signate
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Sent: Thursday, June 23
By the time you install the Asterisk server you have more features than
Cisco delivers with Unity, for half the cost and without those annoying
viruses.
So instead of thinking about connecting Asterisk, consider disconnecting
Unity. They make excellent landfill.
Regards,
William Boehlke
Telephony doesn't use a lot of processor. We think one of the principal
arguments for a second one is that you have another processor in the
unlikely event that your primary fails.
William Boehlke
Signate
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It will perform OK most days, but nothing on it is redundant and you will
need to be either careful (spare parts stocks, failover servers, etc.) or
lucky to avoid a day or two of downtime each year.
William
Signate
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It should handle it easily, always depending on the mix of work plus
transcoding.
Strongly recommend dual power supplies and RAID 1.
William
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Mediatrix gateways for FXO. Cost a little more but never a problem.
William Boehlke
Signate
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providers get to five eights.
William Boehlke
Signate
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Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] voip problems
We've installed them. They cost roughly $2600 for 24 ports through
distribution, and they do support the feature sets of the two phone types
we've installed (one being Meridian).
William Boehlke
Signate
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Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dell PowerEdge SC1425 w/ TE405P?
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, William Boehlke wrote:
SC1425 is great value but note it does not have high availablility
configurations.
In our opinion, telephony requires dual NICs, dual power supplies and
RAID 1 to have any
SC1425 is great value but note it does not have high availablility
configurations.
In our opinion, telephony requires dual NICs, dual power supplies and RAID 1
to have any hope of achieving five nines.
William Boehlke
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We'd appreciate it if people don't try it just to try it, since we have to
answer the calls. Thanks.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moody
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:10 AM
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Signate is better qualified to describe what Signate WebCall can and can't
do, thank you. We have implemented three way calling, conference calling for
twenty callers and a variety of other options. Our target customers are
corporate web sites.
In turn we're happy for you to describe your
Since paging works just fine in the current code using external speakers or
speakers on the handsets, someone should take the $200 as partial
compensation for the aggravation.
William Boehlke
Signate
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The rule of thunb we use is 5% of the in-room stations will be in use at a
time.
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on the gateway. And not all handset features are implemented and
kludging * to compensate can add complexity and cost.
Contact me off list if you have questions.
William Boehlke
Signate
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We sometimes run multiple OS and PBX instances for redundancy.
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] multiple PBXs on one server.
Is
The simple answer is 64KB.
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] bandwidth
how much bandwith is used to go
On Intel it is our experience that the constraint is the PC bus. Throughput
tops out at somewhere between 50 and 100 calls depending on disk speed,
without ever using a meaningful part of one processor.
William Boehlke
Signate
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Unregulated?
If you ignore e911 when you put a PBX into the Texas school system you'll go
to jail if they don't just take you out and shoot you.
The same holds in local jurisdictions across the country. Our federal
government is not the only regulator.
William
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your Call Manager deployment would cost.
We'll be happy to talk in depth off list.
William Boehlke
Signate, LLC
www.signate.com
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Yes, it is. Ugly but possible.
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Using asterisk to convert H.323 to SIP?
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will need
to charge $59.95 for the e-book so OSoft can earn a return on their
investment in the reader technology, however our overseas e-book customers
will save a week's transit time, customs duty, and $13 per book.
Thank you for your interest!
William Boehlke
Signate, LLC
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, and impossible for the
others.
If interested, contact us offline.
William Boehlke
Signate, LLC
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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004
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cards for each T1. Once you architect that way, the router
approach costs about the same at four or more PRIs as I recall the numbers.
William Boehlke
Signate
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Cheap and high quality. Pick either one.
William
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cheap, Highquality IP Phones
I know that there is a
$175ish perhaps. Polycom IP500.
We think snom, Cisco and Polycom deliver quality, Haven't been happy with
the other half dozen or so we've tried. Others may have had different
experiences.
William Boehlke
Signate, LLC
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The 7914 does not support SIP. Send it back
to whoever told you it does.
William Boehlke
Signate, LLC
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We're hoping to have a digital rights managed ebook version of VoIP
Telephony with Asterisk by the end of 2004.
William
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When we need that many T1s, we use routers. Much less complex and roughly
the same cost.
William
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Yes, you can use IAX between boxes to handle a shared dial plan.
There are no single answers. System requirements vary depending on whether
the same box is doing translation, authentication, conferencing, voicemail,
IVR, CDR, call recording, all of them, or none. Generally, we think hot
Our experience is very different.
You can use * as a VoIP PBX. You can also use it as a conventional PBX. And
as a hybrid. One of *s benefits.
You can replace all your phones with SIP phones. You can also reuse analog
and the common types of digital phones. Or mix and match. Another of *s
Consider hot swappable SCSI RAID 1 instead of IDE. You'll appreciate it
every couple of years when you lose a disk but the PBX stays up.
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How many calls at one time? Specs of server, esp CPU, RAM and disk? SIP
calls or analog? Channel bank?
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Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] FINALLY! a good book about Asterisk
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Thanks for listening.
William Boehlke
Signate
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Please let me know if you can suggest anyone, or have them contact me directly.
William Boehlke
Signate provides design, installation, integration, training and management services for the Asterisk open source PBX.
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