It is indeed much higher. I'm using it here in production w/o media running through it and it is supporting 400 connections with virtually no load on it on a 1.8Ghz machine.
On 5/17/05, Alistair Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Manousos wrote: > > Alistair Cunningham wrote: > >> Michael Manousos wrote: > >>> Alistair Cunningham wrote: > >>>> I have a customer who wants to do large volumes of H.323 to H.323 > >>>> hairpinning. We haven't tested this scenario for large volumes > >>>> before; maybe someone on asterisk-users has. > >>>> > >>>> If they buy a top of the line PC, how many concurrent calls are we > >>>> likely to get? Routing logic will be simple, the machine won't be > >>>> doing anything else, and let's assume no transcoding for now. > >>>> > >>>> We're not looking for an exact figure at this point, just a rough > >>>> estimate for cost / benefit of Asterisk versus a proprietary system. > >>> > >>> Currently, without transcoding, you can get maximum 100 simultaneous > >>> H.323 channels per box. With the next release of asterisk-oh323 this > >>> number will be raised to ~180 channels. After that, major optimizations > >>> at the OpenH323 RTP/jitter buffer code are required to push this number > >>> up. > >>> > >>> Michael. > >> > >> That's a shame; my customer probably needs 400 to 500 channels (200 to > >> 250 calls). > > > > I know but the performance bound is set by OpenH323. Also, an additional > > note, these numbers are almost the same even when transcoding > > (G.729 <-> G.711) is used. > > > >> Does anyone have experience of GNU Gatekeeper in proxy mode? Any idea > >> of what load it can handle? > >> > > > > GNUGK in full proxy mode (all signaling and RTP through it) has a > > similar upper limit. > > > > Michael. > > Michael, > > Thanks for following up. You don't happen to know what the performance > of GNUGK as a simple gatekeeper would be? In this case we could perhaps > use it to load balance multiple Asterisks... > > -- > Alistair Cunningham, > Integrics Ltd, > +44 (0)7870 699 479 > http://integrics.com/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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