Re: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing

2007-03-13 Thread Tim Panton
On 9 Mar 2007, at 17:51, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: I've got a system I'm putting together to handle IVR calls with * I have one head system that terminates two PRIs. It routes the calls from the PRIs to * boxes using IAX I'm planning on having four or five * boxes. The * boxes run AGI

RE: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing

2007-03-09 Thread David Ruggles
] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Edwards Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:21 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, David Ruggles wrote: I've got

RE: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Edwards Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:21 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, David

RE: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing

2007-03-09 Thread David Ruggles
: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:58 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing telco servers are Supermicro 2.8GHz P4, 1GB, Digium te410p with 2 PRI plugged in. application server is HP DL380 3.06GHz Xeon x2 (4 cores), 3GB, Digium

RE: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing

2007-03-09 Thread David Ruggles
Anyway, back to your question, how about your head system running an AGI that connects to the manager interface on the IVR boxes to find out how many calls each is currently processing? You could set a channel variable with the least busy host name and use that in your dial statement.

RE: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing

2007-03-09 Thread David Ruggles
09, 2007 10:59 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing Anyway, back to your question, how about your head system running an AGI that connects to the manager interface on the IVR boxes to find out how many calls

Re: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing

2007-03-09 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
I've got a system I'm putting together to handle IVR calls with * I have one head system that terminates two PRIs. It routes the calls from the PRIs to * boxes using IAX I'm planning on having four or five * boxes. The * boxes run AGI scripts to process the IVR calls. Can I load balance the

Re: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing

2007-03-08 Thread Steve Edwards
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, David Ruggles wrote: I've got a system I'm putting together to handle IVR calls with * I have one head system that terminates two PRIs. It routes the calls from the PRIs to * boxes using IAX I'm planning on having four or five * boxes. The * boxes run AGI scripts to process

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-11 Thread tim panton
On 10 Aug 2005, at 16:48, Michiel van Baak wrote:On 08:45, Wed 10 Aug 05, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: 1) your provider is voluntarily screwing up VoIP traffic2) some idiot purposingly fills up your pipe with UDP traffic If they fill the pipe with TCP traffic, UDP will be dead aswell. Protocols don't

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-11 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 09:15, Thu 11 Aug 05, tim panton wrote: On 10 Aug 2005, at 16:48, Michiel van Baak wrote: On 08:45, Wed 10 Aug 05, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: 1) your provider is voluntarily screwing up VoIP traffic 2) some idiot purposingly fills up your pipe with UDP traffic If they fill the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-11 Thread John Daragon
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Dave Redmore wrote: Hello All, Wondering what sort of real world mileage people are getting out of different internet connecions - i.e. different DSL connection speeds, cable modems, etc... Is it reasonable to hope to carry 10 - 15 concurrent calls on a 768K DSL?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-11 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
I do up to 10 g.729 channels over 1024 / 256 DSL without noticeable difference in call statistics (i.e. avg length of calls). If you are using ADSL, the maximum bandwith you'll be able to use is your upload rate since VoIP calls send data bidirectionally. Snip ... Jean-Michel, hi; Is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-10 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Joseph wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 08:10 +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: I do up to 10 g.729 channels over 1024 / 256 DSL without noticeable difference in call statistics (i.e. avg length of calls). If you are using ADSL, the maximum bandwith you'll be able to use is your upload rate

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-10 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 08:45, Wed 10 Aug 05, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: 1) your provider is voluntarily screwing up VoIP traffic 2) some idiot purposingly fills up your pipe with UDP traffic If they fill the pipe with TCP traffic, UDP will be dead as well. Protocols don't matter, bandwidth does. -- Michiel van

RE: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-10 Thread Kevin Walsh
Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 08:10 +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: I do up to 10 g.729 channels over 1024 / 256 DSL without noticeable difference in call statistics (i.e. avg length of calls). If you are using ADSL, the maximum bandwith you'll be able to use is your

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-09 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Dave Redmore wrote: Hello All, Wondering what sort of real world mileage people are getting out of different internet connecions - i.e. different DSL connection speeds, cable modems, etc... Is it reasonable to hope to carry 10 - 15 concurrent calls on a 768K DSL? I'm not talking about

RE: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-09 Thread Darren Wright
--- An ever better way is get some kind of SLA with guaranteed uptime and bandwith, a symetrical link, and do some traffic shaping to ensure that VoIP has priority. Part of the point of VoIP is to save money by collapsing voice and data networks onto one (presumably

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-09 Thread Alex
I am doing traffic shaping with a open source linux firewall http://www.ipcop.org/ and since i have traffic shaping configured my 3 VoIP lines work great. I am not using Asterix yet but I will go to as soon as I have the time to work myself into it. If anybody can tell me where the best

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-09 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Darren Wright wrote: --- An ever better way is get some kind of SLA with guaranteed uptime and bandwith, a symetrical link, and do some traffic shaping to ensure that VoIP has priority. Part of the point of VoIP is to save money by collapsing voice and data networks

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call load balancing

2005-08-09 Thread Joseph
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 08:10 +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: I do up to 10 g.729 channels over 1024 / 256 DSL without noticeable difference in call statistics (i.e. avg length of calls). If you are using ADSL, the maximum bandwith you'll be able to use is your upload rate since VoIP calls