mylist@lightwavetech.com
2004-Oct-17 13:14 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk for a VOIP Provider?
Is it practical to use Asterisk as the basis for a VOIP provider service? What I am saying is that we want to start a VOIP service offering including possibly terminating/originating some of our own traffic at some point as we grow. How many simultaneous end users (single line) should we expect to service with say one Asterisk box with say 1 T1 for data, hardware would be 2.4 ghz or so with a gig of ram. We would be using sip or Iax adapters (which would be better bandwidth wise) if that helps. Just trying to get an idea of what sort of resources we need to get ourselves rolling. Lastly, this is allowed within the license of Asterisk right? Thanks, Todd Routhier Lightwave Technologies, LLC. -- Start Your Dialup Internet Service! http://www.YourOwnISP.com Lightwave Technologies, LLC. http://www.LightWaveTech.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20041017/028a761b/attachment.htm
Dude, go learn to use your email program. Turn off HTML. On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 15:14 -0500, mylist@lightwavetech.com wrote:> Is it practical to use Asterisk as the basis for a VOIP provider > service? > > What I am saying is that we want to start a VOIP service offering > including possibly terminating/originating some of our own traffic at > some point as we grow. > > How many simultaneous end users (single line) should we expect to > service with say one Asterisk box with say 1 T1 for data, hardware > would be 2.4 ghz or so with a gig of ram. We would be using sip or Iax > adapters (which would be better bandwidth wise) if that helps.The fact that you asked the question about how many users you could support on a T1 means you really need to go study standard telephony service for a while. This is regardless of Voip or not.> Just trying to get an idea of what sort of resources we need to get > ourselves rolling.Several books and many hours to familiarize yourself with telephony, then you need to get a lawyer to tell you what your local and federal laws will require of you.> Lastly, this is allowed within the license of Asterisk right?Yep, but your local regulators will be your biggest hurdle. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
As you can see in my previous post I normally do before sending to the list, I forgot this time, My Apologies. Thanks, Todd Routhier Lightwave Technologies, LLC. -- Start Your Dialup Internet Service! http://www.YourOwnISP.com Lightwave Technologies, LLC. http://www.LightWaveTech.com -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven Critchfield Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 3:24 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk for a VOIP Provider? Dude, go learn to use your email program. Turn off HTML. On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 15:14 -0500, mylist@lightwavetech.com wrote:> Is it practical to use Asterisk as the basis for a VOIP provider > service? > > What I am saying is that we want to start a VOIP service offering > including possibly terminating/originating some of our own traffic at > some point as we grow. > > How many simultaneous end users (single line) should we expect to > service with say one Asterisk box with say 1 T1 for data, hardware > would be 2.4 ghz or so with a gig of ram. We would be using sip or Iax > adapters (which would be better bandwidth wise) if that helps.The fact that you asked the question about how many users you could support on a T1 means you really need to go study standard telephony service for a while. This is regardless of Voip or not.> Just trying to get an idea of what sort of resources we need to get > ourselves rolling.Several books and many hours to familiarize yourself with telephony, then you need to get a lawyer to tell you what your local and federal laws will require of you.> Lastly, this is allowed within the license of Asterisk right?Yep, but your local regulators will be your biggest hurdle. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users