Comments on: An Asterisk Milestone – Shove 10,000 simultaneous calls onto a single Open Source machine!

By: uptodate

uptodate — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:21:05 +0000

Hello can I use some of the material from this blog if I link back to you?

By: Chloe Anderson

Chloe Anderson — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:12:30 +0000

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By: Michael S Collins

Michael S Collins — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:33:18 +0000

FYI,

Go check out Anthony Minessale’s presentation (Day 1) at ClueCon. The 10,000 calls goal in a single instance has been conquered with FreeSWITCH for some time. I don’t doubt that Asterisk will eventually conquer it as well.

http://www.cluecon.com – click the videos link under the thank you banner and you’ll get a torrent. Grab all the presentations or, alternatively, open the torrent and grab just Tony’s talk: Day 1, Presentation 2. It’s near the end of the video.

-MC

By: roderickm

roderickm — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:10:41 +0000

Digium’s subscriptions for open source Asterisk ( http://www.digium.com/en/supportcenter/asterisk.php ) do not impose a limit on the number of concurrent calls, and we’ve talked to many customers that exceed 250 concurrent calls without breaking a sweat. We can’t guarantee you’ll swing 250 calls on a dusty server pulled out of retirement, but our support team will help you get the most out of Asterisk.

As Olle describes, sheer call performance is all about the hardware and tuning. He says his tests ran on the latest kit from HP — heady hardware indeed. And he clearly states Asterisk was configured as a media proxy for these tests.

By default, Asterisk installs with numerous feature-filled modules and applications enabled. Transcoding, recording, conference mixing, inband audio processing, etc. require more server effort than a simple softswitch hairpin. This may be a big reason that newcomers (and yes, competitors) get the impression that Asterisk doesn’t scale well.

Generally, the fewer features enabled, the more calls a given server can handle. Similarly, a racecar’s speed doesn’t match the creature comforts of a luxury sedan, and neither can haul as much as a cargo truck.

Asterisk lets you choose the right mix of power and feature complexity to build just what you need for your custom telephony solution.

Rod Montgomery
Director of Services, Digium