We have managed to do 2000calls / hour from pri to g729 using a similar setup with 4 lines, you'd definitely want to plan out how many concurrent calls you plan on handling cuz 4 lines at full capacity just won't happen with g729.
---- Shidan On 3/17/06, Leif Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Evening all, > > I've got a customer that needs me to start doing some significant call > volumes on Asterisk, and I'm just looking for opinons on hardware > requirements from people who have done this before. I have a pretty > good idea as to what I need, but I'm not sure, so I'd prefer to hear > from people who have either done this, or at least close to this kind > of call volume. > > I need to take 4x T1's into an Asterisk box (92B + 4D) and transcode > them from G.711 (ulaw) to G.729, terminating via SIP. I've been at VON > this week in SJ, talking to the Digium guys, and opinions seem to > hover around a box with 2x Intel Xeon CPUs running at 3.0GHz or > higher. > > Has anyone had such luck with this type of configuration? I was > originally looking at doing 184 channels in a single box, but that > doesn't sound feasable without spending significant amounts of money > -- it's going to end up being more economical (and probably just plain > safer) to do this with a pair of boxes. Thats no big deal -- there's > no real need to have it on a single box (the amount of overhead I'll > add in electricity costs is going to be negligable). > > The second part of this question involves the use of the Dell SC1420 > series of tower servers. It seems to be a great price at being around > $4000 w/ 80GB SATA RAID, dual Xeon @ 3.8GHz, 2GB RAM and a 3 year > support contract (4 hour turn around, 24 hour, 365 day). The support > contract is NECESSARY for this deployment, thus I can't go use > something from say... Penguin Computing. I've been using Dells with > pretty good success thus far -- however not had to push one to this > level, and I can't afford to screw this up for this customer -- so > unfortunately have to get it right the first time (I hate to have to > do that since of course testing is always a critical part of > deployment, and I will get SOME testing time -- but I'll have already > put the money into the servers obviously before I can test -- catch 22 > stylez). > > I had heard some ill things from the SC series of Dell's, but hoping I > can get away with it -- if you have a better suggestion for a series > of computers, from any manufacturer (as long as I can have the same > type of support contact from the manufacturer), then I'm all ears, but > the pricing on the SC1420 is really in my ball park. > > I'm also not forcing myself into using either the Digium TE411p or > TE410p series, or the comparable 4 port card from Sangoma -- so > thoughts and experiences from that front is also welcome. I really > just need to find a solution that works. > > I appreciate and look forward to your thoughts and the discussion! > > -- > Leif Madsen. > http://www.leifmadsen.com > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
