Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-26 Thread Benny Amorsen
Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com writes: Okay - I'm not shooting from the hip here. The driver in question is a Intel E1000 on a Poweredge 1650. If you visit the Digium site and do other googling, you will see that there is a specific issue with asterisk and this hardware/driver

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-26 Thread Danny Nicholas
@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com writes: Okay - I'm not shooting from the hip here. The driver in question is a Intel E1000 on a Poweredge 1650. If you visit the Digium site and do other googling, you will see

[asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Victor
Hi! A customer of mine wants to connect an asterisk system with 240 to 480 lines to a PSTN switch. To save the costs for E1 cards and the corresponding E1 mainlines he wants to connect the system to the switch by a SIP trunk. Phones will be connected to the server through the same SIP trunk as

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Cary Fitch
...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Christian Victor Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:10 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines Hi! A customer of mine wants to connect an asterisk system with 240 to 480 lines to a PSTN switch. To save the costs for E1 cards

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Nicholas
-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Cary Fitch Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:54 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines First Issue to be addressed is how

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Grygoriy Dobrovolskyy
2009/3/24 Christian Victor christ...@victormedia.de Hi! A customer of mine wants to connect an asterisk system with 240 to 480 lines to a PSTN switch. To save the costs for E1 cards and the corresponding E1 mainlines he wants to connect the system to the switch by a SIP trunk. Phones will

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Victor
2009/3/24 Cary Fitch ca...@usawide.net First Issue to be addressed is how many simultaneous calls and bandwidth availability. Number of “lines” (numbers) is not a limitation in it self unless they are all in use. Sorry for being a bit unclear in this point. What I meant was 240 to 480

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Victor
2009/3/24 Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com Here are a few “look outs”; Using conference rooms will increase your bandwidth requirements. On board Network controllers will affect performance in this “high-use” scenario. 250 simultaneous calls will use about 7.5Mb of bandwidth depending on

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Victor
2009/3/24 Grygoriy Dobrovolskyy megaho...@gmail.com If the switch is fine why not ? But i wander why kind if switch is that 240-480 fxo ? ;) Sounds like a big overkill. And i dont see a problem with asterisk, if not too much transcoding involved and with the right hardware. It's an ISDN

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Nicholas
, 2009 11:47 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines 2009/3/24 Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com Here are a few look outs; Using conference rooms will increase your bandwidth requirements. On board Network controllers

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Steve Edwards
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote: Using conference rooms will increase your bandwidth requirements. How does conferencing consume bandwidth differently than bridging? On board Network controllers will affect performance in this high-use scenario. I know you've recently had

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Victor
2009/3/24 Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com I use a Dell with the 1Gb Ethernet on board, but had to clock it down to 100 Mhz because * has an issue with Dell on board Ethernet. Ah - good to know. I think we will use SUN machines. But I'll keep that in mind. Chris

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Nicholas
-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote: Using conference rooms will increase your bandwidth requirements. How does conferencing consume bandwidth differently than bridging? On board Network controllers will affect performance in this high-use scenario. I

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Stephen Davies
Hi, We have a customer who used a strong quad-core Xeon box to convert up to 800 simultneous calls from SIP to IAX and trunk them to another box. So your requirement doesn't look like a big problem. Steve On 3/24/09, Christian Victor christ...@victormedia.de wrote: Hi! A customer of mine

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread David Gibbons
I have several Dell boxes running onboard Broadcom and Intel NICs any haven't had any issues. It's preposterous to make a blanket statement like that about all Dell hardware. Maybe you should re-compile your drivers. Or have prosupport come put a new mobo in for you :). -Dave snip Not at

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Nicholas
Gibbons Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:27 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines I have several Dell boxes running onboard Broadcom and Intel NICs any haven't had any issues. It's preposterous to make a blanket

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines I have several Dell boxes running onboard Broadcom and Intel NICs any haven't had any issues. It's preposterous to make a blanket statement like that about all Dell hardware. Maybe you should

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Steve Edwards
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote: Using conference rooms will increase your bandwidth requirements. On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Steve Edwards wrote: How does conferencing consume bandwidth differently than bridging? On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote: Not at all, just Dell :)

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Nicholas
: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:01 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines Then say as long as you don't use an Intel E1000 on a Poweredge 1650, as I and others have had issues. I also have many Dell Poweredge series

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Nicholas
: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:03 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote: Using conference rooms will increase your bandwidth requirements. On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Steve Edwards

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Matt Riddell
On 25/03/2009 10:05 a.m., Danny Nicholas wrote: It's actually a E1000 on Any POWEREDGE. If yall want a rukus, I can trash Dell all day. That's not really what I had in mind though. Hmmm, I've also had problems with the e1000 driver in the past but not on Dell - I seem to remember reading

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Nicholas
Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines On 25/03/2009 10:05 a.m., Danny Nicholas wrote: It's actually a E1000 on Any POWEREDGE. If yall want a rukus, I can trash Dell all day. That's not really what I had in mind though. Hmmm, I've also had problems with the e1000 driver

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Matt Riddell
On 25/03/2009 10:54 a.m., Danny Nicholas wrote: I downloaded the newest E1000 driver from the Intel site and tried it on a 1550 and 1650 with no joy. So this isn't an attack on Dell, just a verification of information I found and was trying to pass on to the questioner. It could just as

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP trunk with 250 lines

2009-03-24 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Danny Nicholas wrote: Okay - I'm not shooting from the hip here. The driver in question is a Intel E1000 on a Poweredge 1650. If you visit the Digium site and do other googling, you will see that there is a specific issue with asterisk and this hardware/driver combination. I'm not really a