> Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: >>>I would set the "Enterprise Class" bar at five 9's reliability >>>(about 5.25 minutes per year of down time) the same >>>as a Class 4/5 phone switch. This would require redundant >>>design considerations in both hardware and software. >> > > To turn around, let's discuss what we need to focus on to get > Asterisk there: > > Here's a few bullet points, there's certainly a lot more > * Linux platform stability - how?
Even more than Linux itself is the x86 platform... I've thought about this a bit when considering * boxes for big customers. When one actually comes along, I'll have to actually make a decision :-). >From where I stand, the best thing to do for smaller customers is give them a box with RAID and redundant power supplies, if they can afford it. But if I were to have a big customer with deep pockets, I'd really like * on a big Sun beast with redundant-everything (i.e. you can hot swap any component and there's usually n+1 of everything). The problem is that I don't think there's any Solaris support for Digium cards, since it's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem. One of these days, I may convince myself to buy a modern Sun box (maybe the ~$1000 Blade 100s) and see what can be done. The only problem I could conceive would be endian-ness, but I read about Digium cards in a PowerPC box, so that won't be a problem, right? Nick _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
