Yes. I have customers doing that all the time. They are service provider specialize in political campages. Going back to topic, it he is only doing this one time, why doesn't just find a service provider company to do it.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Bagnall Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:42 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200,000 recorded calls > I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use > asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short > message from the candidate. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd find it very difficult ethically to be involved in this, even assuming it's legal. Check very carefully that it's legal in your jurisdiction. Assuming you get over those hurdles, for a provider, you'd want someone with per-second billing and no minimum call charge. If you get free local calls within a set area and it's a local election, consider separating your dial list out into local (i.e. free) calls and out-of-area calls. Use the VoIP provider for the out-of-area calls, and your T1s for local calls. 200,000 calls isn't too bad if you're prepared to space it over a period of time. If you're looking to target homes, you'll probably be aiming for times from 6pm - 8pm during the working week (after people get home, but before the kids go to bed), so if you wanted to do it over 2 weeks (20 hour window) you'd need to process 10,000 calls an hour, or 166 calls a minute. There was a discussion on the list recently about dimensioning for systems capable of 500 concurrent calls, which may be worth a read. Regards, Chris -- C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited This email is made from 100% recycled electrons _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
