And what people are using to deploy super servers with astersik? Itanium with linux? clusters of itanium with linux? or some RISC processor with some *nix? cause it seems asterisk is only 100% supported on Linux/Intel or am i totally wrong?
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:51:18 -0600, Rich Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > im my case im looking into 100 seats initially and going up to 1000 at > > > the end (over a 18 months period). > > > Looks like we will have to develop *a lot* if we want to use * for it. > > > Maybe a commercial solution will be better at this time. > > > > On Cebit SGI announced a server solution based on Signate software > > (which is based on Asterisk) that can handle up to 5000 simultaneous > > calls. I don't know how the marketing drones have cooked up that number > > but perhaps it's interesting. See > > http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2005/march/von.html > > According to the marketing blurb, "The benchmark was a standard SIPP test > and was performed by SGI and Signate. The results compared similarly > configured systems: an Altix 350 with dual Intel(r) 1.5GHz Itanium 2 > processors/400MHz front side bus/2GB memory compared to a dual 3.0GHz > Pentium 4 processors/800MHz front side bus/2GB memory. The results > based on simultaneous calls terminating with comparable voice quality > were 5,002 for the Altix 350 versus 333 for the PC." > > Its interesting how marketing people leave out the details. The > statement only addresses terminating calls (which one is left with the > assumption the test only addressed call setup, not teardown, cdr, etc), > doesn't mention whether any of those calls could actually carry on a > conversation, hints that no other application (eg, voicemail) was > in use simultanously, and most likely assumes the equivalent of > canreinvite=yes on a local lan segment following call setup. > > However, the stats do seem to support what many of us have already > experienced, and that is the pci bus limitations with some Intel > chipsets is far less then reasonable for realtime apps (such as *). > > It would be very interesting to see some real life stats with a > reasonable mix of * apps including voicemail, transcoding, T1s, etc. > > "If" the box could actually sustain 5,000 real life simultanous calls, > it could replace a hugh percentage of the US class-5 Central Offices > (not to mention PBXs). ;) > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users