Yes, we have enough "car warranty" calls now, just recently joined by the "reduce your credit card interest rate" calls.
:-( Cary -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff LaCoursiere Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:34 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] 400 calls at g711 how much cpu power My only comment is that I am having moral issues with assisting anyone that is planning to call one million phone numbers to play a message and hang up. Doesn't sound like an "opt-in" kind of campaign to me. When such a thing happens to me on my home phone I get extremely angry. j On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Erick Perez wrote: > We are planning to run an outbound only campaign. A 20-second voice message > will be played to callers and our dialer on machine1 will send to > machine2-asterisk (1.4) instructions to dial 400 calls, play the message and > hang up. This will be done for about 1 million phones. > > The asterisk box will communicate via SIP to a voice carrier. the voice > carrier will then place the calls on pstn. The codec will be g711. So we > will never do any transcoding. > > I have been calculating the CPU power required to do the calls and in > previous posting the usual calculation is about 40MHZ per leg when no > transcoding is involved. > So if we use the 40MHZ rule, we are talking about 40*400=16000MHZ or 1.6Ghz. > > Comments? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Erick > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users