[asterisk-users] VOIP Bandwidth questions

2006-11-02 Thread mail-lists
Hello everyone, This probably isn't the correct place to ask this but I thought I'd check here first. We're getting ready to roll out a hosted pbx solution on a very limited trial basis (some company employees are going to get voip service at home). Our main issue is of course bandwidth.

Re: [asterisk-users] VOIP Bandwidth questions

2006-11-02 Thread Erick Perez
This one will surely heat up. Usually the telcos have to calculate the subscribers vs telco capacity. I use simple figures, so extrapolate this to millions of customers, millions of lines, peak amount of calls at any given time of the day and of course houndreds,thousands of millions of dollars

Re: [asterisk-users] VOIP Bandwidth questions

2006-11-02 Thread Erick Perez
I forgot to tell that my rant is about a centrally handled servers, with no re-invite and no spider-like interconnects with smaller, geographically located switches. On 11/2/06, Erick Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one will surely heat up. Usually the telcos have to calculate the

Re: [asterisk-users] VOIP Bandwidth questions

2006-11-02 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:47:42PM -0500, Erick Perez wrote: This one will surely heat up. Usually the telcos have to calculate the subscribers vs telco capacity. I use simple figures, so extrapolate this to millions of customers, millions of lines, peak amount of calls at any given time of

Re: [asterisk-users] VOIP Bandwidth questions

2006-11-02 Thread Jorge Alayon
Capacity is planned using Erlang Formulae which is a medium complexity statistical model mainly used for voice communications trunk occupation and switching capacity. Some idea of bandwith usage might be obtained using the simple calculators at www.voipcalculator.com Regards, Jorge A. Erick