Hello! In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got the biggest dialplans, and how big are these monsters? What's the biggest dialplan in use right now? If you feel you are a competitor, let me know how many contexts/extensions/priorities you are dealing with. Maybe the context with the most extensions, the extension with the most priorities would be interesting... For example: Digium's dialplan is roughly 50 contexts, 304 total extensions, 870 total priorities. My home system has 100 contexts, 400 total extensions, 935 total priorities. My biggest extension has 129 priorities... no inflation or useless cruft there, either... mostly. These would seem small compared to some dialplans out there, I'll bet. murf -- Steve Murphy Software Developer Digium -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3227 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061010/b57971fc/smime.bin
Steve Murphy wrote:> Hello! > > In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got > the biggest > dialplans, and how big are these monsters? >Sounds interesting. Small facility of 60 users: -= 161 extensions (597 priorities) in 59 contexts. =- -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Do you want single server stats, or cluster stats? Single server: -= 1004 extensions (1403 priorities) in 45 contexts. =- Aaron On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 14:16 -0600, Steve Murphy wrote:> Hello! > > In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got > the biggest > dialplans, and how big are these monsters? > > What's the biggest dialplan in use right now? If you feel you are a > competitor, > let me know how many contexts/extensions/priorities you are dealing > with. Maybe the > context with the most extensions, the extension with the most priorities > would be interesting... > > For example: Digium's dialplan is roughly 50 contexts, 304 total > extensions, 870 total priorities. > My home system has 100 contexts, 400 total extensions, 935 total > priorities. My biggest > extension has 129 priorities... no inflation or useless cruft there, > either... mostly. > > These would seem small compared to some dialplans out there, I'll bet. > > murf > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- Aaron Daniel Computer Systems Technician Sam Houston State University amdtech@shsu.edu (936) 294-4198
Last machine that I set up is roughly 30 contexts 400 priorotys and 20 extensions. Did it on a dual core 3.0 with 2 gigs of ram and raid 1 sata. System is a bit of an over kill but client wanted it. Works like a charm. I know it's not a match for what you have but I figured I would throw it out there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Murphy" <murf@digium.com> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:16 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan??> _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Steve is their a CLI command you can make from the console that will tell you the answer? LOL or are we expected to count? Cheers, Dean> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Murphy > Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 4:17 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? > > Hello! > > In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got > the biggest > dialplans, and how big are these monsters? > > What's the biggest dialplan in use right now? If you feel you are a > competitor, > let me know how many contexts/extensions/priorities you are dealing > with. Maybe the > context with the most extensions, the extension with the mostpriorities> would be interesting... > > For example: Digium's dialplan is roughly 50 contexts, 304 total > extensions, 870 total priorities. > My home system has 100 contexts, 400 total extensions, 935 total > priorities. My biggest > extension has 129 priorities... no inflation or useless cruft there, > either... mostly. > > These would seem small compared to some dialplans out there, I'll bet. > > murf > > -- > Steve Murphy > Software Developer > Digium
Hi, On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 14:16 -0600, Steve Murphy wrote:> My home system has 100 contexts, 400 total extensions, 935 total > priorities. My biggest > extension has 129 priorities... no inflation or useless cruft there, > either... mostly.Where do you live? In a castle? 400 extensions for a home system, that is ... extreme! :-) /abrander (counting roughly 10 extension at home (including cruft and inflation) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3333 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061010/121b0c6a/smime.bin
The last Asterisk system I developed had a whopping 0 dialplan entries. It generated calls via the manager interface and handled them through agi. Does that make me a completely emasculated Asterisk hacker? On 10/10/06, Steve Murphy <murf@digium.com> wrote:> Hello! > > In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got > the biggest > dialplans, and how big are these monsters? > > What's the biggest dialplan in use right now? If you feel you are a > competitor, > let me know how many contexts/extensions/priorities you are dealing > with. Maybe the > context with the most extensions, the extension with the most priorities > would be interesting... > > For example: Digium's dialplan is roughly 50 contexts, 304 total > extensions, 870 total priorities. > My home system has 100 contexts, 400 total extensions, 935 total > priorities. My biggest > extension has 129 priorities... no inflation or useless cruft there, > either... mostly. > > These would seem small compared to some dialplans out there, I'll bet. > > murf > > -- > Steve Murphy > Software Developer > Digium > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > >
Dean Collins wrote:> Steve is their a CLI command you can make from the console that will > tell you the answer? LOL or are we expected to count? >show dialplan The stats are given at the end. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Steve Murphy wrote:> > In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got > the biggest dialplans, and how big are these monsters? >Home system with 4 users: 63 extensions with a total of 218 priorities in 12 contexts. Marc
-= 16410 extensions (27352 priorities) in 36 contexts. =- IPkall -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Murphy Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:17 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? Hello! In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got the biggest dialplans, and how big are these monsters? What's the biggest dialplan in use right now? If you feel you are a competitor, let me know how many contexts/extensions/priorities you are dealing with. Maybe the context with the most extensions, the extension with the most priorities would be interesting... For example: Digium's dialplan is roughly 50 contexts, 304 total extensions, 870 total priorities. My home system has 100 contexts, 400 total extensions, 935 total priorities. My biggest extension has 129 priorities... no inflation or useless cruft there, either... mostly. These would seem small compared to some dialplans out there, I'll bet. murf -- Steve Murphy Software Developer Digium
> Hello!> In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got thebiggest dialplans, and how big are these monsters? Our "small" contribution... 1175 extensions (2580 priorities) in 303 contexts Alex
www.IPKall.com wrote:> -= 16410 extensions (27352 priorities) in 36 contexts. =- > >WOW! Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
This is for a system with around 75 different offices hosted on the same box, using 3 T1s, and each office with at least 2 extensions, the biggest one being around 15 extensiosn. -= 1110 extensions (2279 priorities) in 138 contexts. =- This is for a business with 10 extensions: -= 135 extensions (657 priorities) in 31 contexts. =- On 10/10/06, Chris Ramsey <asteriskblog@gmail.com> wrote:> Haha, mine is only 5 contexts and 6 extentions. But then again it is only > really for personal use. > > > -- > www.AsteriskBlog.com > Your home for easy to learn Asterisk stuff. > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:16, Steve Murphy wrote:> In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got > the biggest > dialplans, and how big are these monsters?-= 3552 extensions (3771 priorities) in 63 contexts. =- -A.
One of the smaller systems: -= 9924 extensions (29772 priorities) in 6 contexts. =- Jeremy McNamara
315 extensions (1198 priorities) in 92 contexts. On 10/10/06, Jeremy McNamara <jj@nufone.net> wrote:> > One of the smaller systems: > > -= 9924 extensions (29772 priorities) in 6 contexts. =- > > > > Jeremy McNamara > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- Tom Vile Baldwin Technology Solutions, Inc Consulting - Web Design - VoIP Telephony www.baldwintechsolutions.com Phone: 518-631-2855 x205 Fax: 518-631-2856 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061010/31827b46/attachment-0001.htm
Single server, dual P3 866Mhz, 1.5Gb, TE407P, two PRIs to telco, one PRI to fax server, one PRI to T.38 gateway: 1791 extensions (4378 priorities) in 240 contexts -- George Pajari, netVOICE communications 604 484 VOIP (484 8647 x102) Open Source VoIP/Telephony Specialists 1 877 NET VOIP (638 8647 x102) Hosted IP PBX Services for SOHO & Small Businesses - www.ip-centrex.ca VoIP Service, Equipment, Systems, and Consulting - www.netvoice.ca
I see some awefully large dialplans here. Are people putting all this on one box or clustering it amongst a number of boxes? I think any business is going to be pretty annoyed if they suddenly lost access to 16,000+ extensions, and had to wait for a new box to be built and configured. -----Original Message----- From: George Pajari [mailto:George.Pajari@netvoice.ca] Sent: Tue 10/10/2006 10:48 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? Single server, dual P3 866Mhz, 1.5Gb, TE407P, two PRIs to telco, one PRI to fax server, one PRI to T.38 gateway: 1791 extensions (4378 priorities) in 240 contexts -- George Pajari, netVOICE communications 604 484 VOIP (484 8647 x102) Open Source VoIP/Telephony Specialists 1 877 NET VOIP (638 8647 x102) Hosted IP PBX Services for SOHO & Small Businesses - www.ip-centrex.ca VoIP Service, Equipment, Systems, and Consulting - www.netvoice.ca _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4758 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061010/91468c2d/attachment.bin
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Doug Lytle < support@drdos.info> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion < > asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:25:11 -0400 > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? > Steve Murphy wrote: > > Hello! > > > > In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got > > the biggest > > dialplans, and how big are these monsters? > > > > Sounds interesting. Small facility of 60 users: > > -= 161 extensions (597 priorities) in 59 contexts. =- > > -- > > Ben Franklin quote: > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary > Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."Single server stats, 50 user system, -= 238 extensions (870 priorities) in 57 contexts. =- - Buki -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061011/98b2a591/attachment.htm
No one's system is redundant? :O -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Garstang [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Douglas Garstang Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:58 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? I see some awefully large dialplans here. Are people putting all this on one box or clustering it amongst a number of boxes? I think any business is going to be pretty annoyed if they suddenly lost access to 16,000+ extensions, and had to wait for a new box to be built and configured. -----Original Message----- From: George Pajari [mailto:George.Pajari@netvoice.ca] Sent: Tue 10/10/2006 10:48 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? Single server, dual P3 866Mhz, 1.5Gb, TE407P, two PRIs to telco, one PRI to fax server, one PRI to T.38 gateway: 1791 extensions (4378 priorities) in 240 contexts -- George Pajari, netVOICE communications 604 484 VOIP (484 8647 x102) Open Source VoIP/Telephony Specialists 1 877 NET VOIP (638 8647 x102) Hosted IP PBX Services for SOHO & Small Businesses - www.ip-centrex.ca VoIP Service, Equipment, Systems, and Consulting - www.netvoice.ca _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061011/e9b1160e/attachment.htm
-= 1967 extensions (2838 priorities) in 285 contexts. =- Shared services PBX with a dozen or so customers. -ejay -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Murphy Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:17 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? Hello! In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got the biggest dialplans, and how big are these monsters? What's the biggest dialplan in use right now? If you feel you are a competitor, let me know how many contexts/extensions/priorities you are dealing with. Maybe the context with the most extensions, the extension with the most priorities would be interesting... For example: Digium's dialplan is roughly 50 contexts, 304 total extensions, 870 total priorities. My home system has 100 contexts, 400 total extensions, 935 total priorities. My biggest extension has 129 priorities... no inflation or useless cruft there, either... mostly. These would seem small compared to some dialplans out there, I'll bet. murf -- Steve Murphy Software Developer Digium
> -----Original Message----- > From: C F [mailto:shmaltz@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:59 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? > > > Douglas, it seems to me that you don't understand how the extensions > of an asterisk dialplan relate to real life. As an example: > -= 135 extensions (657 priorities) in 31 contexts. =- > This from a box (yes one box) that has just 10 phones, and 6 lines. > Every s extension is considered an extension. Which makes every macro > a context and at least one extension. If one has: > exten => s,n,Dial(whatever) > exten => s,n,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1) > Then that context (macro) has at least 2 extensions. > Calling Voicemail in my dialplan has 7 extensions (yes just pressing > the message button). For real life it's only 1 extension.I understand how asterisk extensions relate to real life perfectly fine.> > Another example: > This is for a system with around 75 different offices hosted on the > same box, using 3 T1s, and each office with at least 2 extensions, the > biggest one being around 15 extensions. > -= 1110 extensions (2279 priorities) in 138 contexts. =-Ok.> > That's for around 90 phones and 150 published active phone numbers > (some of the phone numbers are just IVRs). Why would the fact that > it's on one box matter? If the main incoming T1 is down (which > happens), there is no incoming calls anyhow. What would clustering > help in this case?You are looking at this from an Enterprise level, not a carrier level. Have you ever heard of NFAS? We have multiple IP-SIP/PSTN gateways connected to our Lucent 5E switch. It allows a T-1 to go down, and we still have connectivity to our 5E switch. What about calls from phones on the IP side? If the Asterisk box they are pointing to dies, you want another Asterisk box to be able to service its calls and therefore you need some form of redundancy.> > Why would someone have to build a new box if a system went down? A > system should never be built with a single point of failure. The only > thing that should be allowed to bring down a system is a fire. The CPU > fan should be noticed making noise way before it dies, which gives > enough time for a planned shutdown, in any case that doesn't require > (if/when the CPU dies) rebuilding the whole box. > Any asterisk system that has more than 50-60 users should NEVER be > built in a way that if it doesn't get physically damaged it needs to > be rebuilt if/when it goes down.Are you serious? Would you really just wait until a system looked like it was on shaky ground before deciding to build a new one? What about if some other component failed? What about the myriad of other failures you didn't think of ahead of time? Do you really think that it's ok for a system that hosts less than 50-60 users to be unavailable while a new system is built? We're talking about VOICE service here, not someones email access. People can do without email for a period of time but they are very sensitive to a lack of dialtone. What about load? Asterisk can supposedly handle about 120 calls. What happens when you get more than about 1000 provisioned users (assuming a 10/1 ratio)? Asterisk has no ability to stop taking new calls, and will keep taking new ones until the load makes the quality of calls unacceptable. A cluster can spread out load between multiple boxes and alleviate this problem. Btw, I showed this email to a senior telecom guy here in the office. Initially his eyes widened, and then he laughed and said he'd certainly never get you to build his telecom infrastructure. Doug.> On 10/11/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang@oneeighty.com> wrote: > > I see some awefully large dialplans here. Are people > putting all this on one box or clustering it amongst a number > of boxes? I think any business is going to be pretty annoyed > if they suddenly lost access to 16,000+ extensions, and had > to wait for a new box to be built and configured. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: George Pajari [mailto:George.Pajari@netvoice.ca] > > Sent: Tue 10/10/2006 10:48 PM > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > Cc: > > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? > > > > > > > > Single server, dual P3 866Mhz, 1.5Gb, TE407P, two > PRIs to telco, one PRI > > to fax server, one PRI to T.38 gateway: > > > > 1791 extensions (4378 priorities) in 240 contexts > > > > -- > > George Pajari, netVOICE communications 604 484 > VOIP (484 8647 x102) > > Open Source VoIP/Telephony Specialists 1 877 NET > VOIP (638 8647 x102) > > Hosted IP PBX Services for SOHO & Small Businesses > - www.ip-centrex.ca > > VoIP Service, Equipment, Systems, and Consulting -www.netvoice.ca> > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >_______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Kohlsmith [mailto:akohlsmith-asterisk@benshaw.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:00 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? > > > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 13:23, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > No one's system is redundant? :O > > Is your Norstar MICS redundant? How about an NEC Electra?I have no data to prove it, but isn't the time between failures on this type of TDM PBX equipment far better than a commodity server? Do they have any moving parts? A server has moving parts, and moving parts fail.> I'd put good money on the VAST majority of SMB's phone > systems NOT being > redundant, and maybe only 60% of them being on any kind UPS, > with maybe 25% > of that 60% having been measured to see how long they can > ride through.We have our servers power supplies sourced from different plants, with a generator etc, but we aren't an SMB. :) Doug.
Local government office with approximately 100 sets (going to 600): 593 extensions (1241 priorities) in 88 contexts CP On 10-Oct-06, at 1:16 PM, Steve Murphy wrote:> Hello! > > In my relentless quest for knowledge, I pose this question: who's got > the biggest > dialplans, and how big are these monsters? > > What's the biggest dialplan in use right now? If you feel you are a > competitor, > let me know how many contexts/extensions/priorities you are dealing > with. Maybe the > context with the most extensions, the extension with the most > priorities > would be interesting... > > For example: Digium's dialplan is roughly 50 contexts, 304 total > extensions, 870 total priorities. > My home system has 100 contexts, 400 total extensions, 935 total > priorities. My biggest > extension has 129 priorities... no inflation or useless cruft there, > either... mostly. > > These would seem small compared to some dialplans out there, I'll bet. > > murf > > -- > Steve Murphy > Software Developer > Digium > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Lacy Moore - Aspendora
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[asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan??
-= 464 extensions (2241 priorities) in 151 contexts. =- Very small. 8 users, but 7 companies. 4 users work for one company, 1 user works for another, 3 users work for 3 companies, 2 users work for 1 company, and 1 user works for 1 company. Several users work for multiple companies if you're interested in the math of all that. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061011/71e08d4a/attachment.htm
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dovid B [mailto:asteriskusers@dovid.net] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:14 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? > > > I worked for some one that installed servers. He has several > fully built > machines with clean installs ready to go if a client needs a "loaner".I guess I'm just not getting it. Sorry. Even if I was an enterprise, not a carrier, I wouldn't want to rely on a server not failing, given that the mtbf between failures on a server is going to be higher than a specialised PBX. Doug.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Michiel van Baak [mailto:michiel@vanbaak.info] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:03 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? > > > > On Oct 12, 2006, at 2:30 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:08:32PM -0500, Lacy Moore - Aspendora > > wrote: > >> As a carrier, I would expect you to have an abundance of > >> redundancy, but not an SMB. SMB's don't have the money to cover > >> everything. That's what cellphones are for :-)Actually, that's what hosted IPT services are for...> > > > On which topic: do *you* know who to call and what to tell > them to get > > your lead DID forwarded to your cell phone when your span > (or switch) > > goes down? > > Our provider simply allows us to give them a couple of numbers to > reroute traffic to when they cant reach our asterisk. No need to > call, it's all automagically done in their systems. I thought all > providers offered this. > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
> Yep or even less these days with the increases in technology. > > Having a hot spare doing nothing is cheap insurance. > > > > Cheers, > > Dean*VERY* cheap insurance, especially when you consider how devastating downtime could be!
I don't get it. The clients are ok with their phone systems being down anywhere from minutes to hours? Doug. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Collins [mailto:mcollins@fcnetwork.com] Sent: Thu 10/12/2006 8:29 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan?? > Exactly. Keeping some extra TDM hardware around for several customers and > keeping the configurations when the drive dies can do wonders for your > "guru factor". It's common sense, really. What's your cost for keeping a > box around "for development" and running it out to a customer in a crisis > when their system dies? Nothing. You got that right! A few spare parts, be they brand new or in a "development" system, are a godsend when your client calls in a panic saying that their system is down. In fact, having a working system on a workbench is a great way to know that your spare parts are working. If your client's system is still under warranty then you can swap out the bad component with the item from your test system and then get a replacement of the warranteed item at your convenience instead of worrying about shipping, etc. Andrew, it sounds like you've been working telecom for a while! -MC _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users