asterisk users - Feb 2006 - Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls

Hi,

I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use
asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from
the candidate.

Provider:
I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution?

Hardware setup:
I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up
the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth.

I found teleyapper on nerdvittles:
http://mundy.org/blog/index.php

But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm
thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql
database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to
monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit.

Any ideas?

TIA!
-Ron

Yeh my advice is don't, or if you must make sure you clean your dialling
list first with the DNC list.

Yes I know that political messages don't need to obey the DNC list but
they should.

This is why I don't donate t most political campaigns.


Dean


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> bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ron Senykoff
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:15 AM
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200,000
recorded calls
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use
> asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from
> the candidate.
> 
> Provider:
> I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution?
> 
> Hardware setup:
> I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up
> the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth.
> 
> I found teleyapper on nerdvittles:
> http://mundy.org/blog/index.php
> 
> But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm
> thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql
> database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to
> monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA!
> -Ron
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How much time and hardware do you have to do this?

VICIDIAL is capable of doing this(and we have done that with VICIDIAL
in the past) with hundreds of concurrent calls if your servers can
handle it, but it takes a few hours to setup and if you are only doing
this once it may not be worth it.

MATT---


On 2/14/06, Ron Senykoff <rsenykoff@harrislogic.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use
> asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from
> the candidate.
>
> Provider:
> I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution?
>
> Hardware setup:
> I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up
> the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth.
>
> I found teleyapper on nerdvittles:
> http://mundy.org/blog/index.php
>
> But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm
> thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql
> database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to
> monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA!
> -Ron
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Ron Senykoff <rsenykoff@harrislogic.com> wrote:
> I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use
asterisk
> to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate.
Can you tell me which party this is for, so I can ensure I never vote for
them?

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Voipjet should be fine however dont have all the calls
go out at once. test your system first and see how
many concurent calls you can have at once without
loosing voice quality. I would also reccomend getting
a dedicated server to do the calls as apposed to
buying the equipment if you are doing a one time thing
(it will lower your costs).

--- Ron Senykoff <rsenykoff@harrislogic.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm helping out with a political campaign and would
> like to use
> asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a
> short message from
> the candidate.
> 
> Provider:
> I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution?
> 
> Hardware setup:
> I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would
> just want to set up
> the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls
> and so forth.
> 
> I found teleyapper on nerdvittles:
> http://mundy.org/blog/index.php
> 
> But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent
> calls. I'm
> thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to
> parse a mysql
> database, then create call files. Use asterisk
> manager interface to
> monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset
> concurrent limit.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA!
> -Ron
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ron Senykoff wrote:
> I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use
> asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from
> the candidate.
there is a special place in hell reserved for people who do this.

my advice: don't.

-Dan

Yes. I have customers doing that all the time. They are service provider
specialize in political campages. Going back to topic, it he is only doing this
one time, why doesn't just find a service provider company to do it.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Chris
Bagnall
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:42 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200,000
recorded calls

> I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use 
> asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short 
> message from the candidate.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd find it very difficult ethically
to
be involved in this, even assuming it's legal.

Check very carefully that it's legal in your jurisdiction.

Assuming you get over those hurdles, for a provider, you'd want someone with
per-second billing and no minimum call charge.

If you get free local calls within a set area and it's a local election,
consider separating your dial list out into local (i.e. free) calls and
out-of-area calls. Use the VoIP provider for the out-of-area calls, and your
T1s for local calls.

200,000 calls isn't too bad if you're prepared to space it over a period
of
time. If you're looking to target homes, you'll probably be aiming for
times
from 6pm - 8pm during the working week (after people get home, but before
the kids go to bed), so if you wanted to do it over 2 weeks (20 hour window)
you'd need to process 10,000 calls an hour, or 166 calls a minute. There was
a discussion on the list recently about dimensioning for systems capable of
500 concurrent calls, which may be worth a read.

Regards,

Chris
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> asterisk@anime.net
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:06 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 
> 200, 000 recordedcalls
> 
SineDialer, ViciDial, and GNUDialer can all do this.
-Kerry

Well, I'm not real sure on whether I like the idea or not bug....   
Anyway, here is an app that I wrote for something similar to this.  It 
was for notifying customers of events,etc.  
http://www.astpp.org/index.php?n=Misc.AutoDialOut

Darren Wiebe
darren@aleph-com.net

Ron Senykoff wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use
>asterisk to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from
>the candidate.
>
>Provider:
>I'm thinking voipjet may be a good solution?
>
>Hardware setup:
>I will have access to several T-1 lines so I would just want to set up
>the dialers to limit the number of concurrent calls and so forth.
>
>I found teleyapper on nerdvittles:
>http://mundy.org/blog/index.php
>
>But I'm not sure that this actually does concurrent calls. I'm
>thinking my best bet is writing some fast agi to parse a mysql
>database, then create call files. Use asterisk manager interface to
>monitor calls and that way I can keep the preset concurrent limit.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA!
>-Ron
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Darren Wiebe
darren@aleph-com.net
Aleph Communications
ASTPP - Open Source Voip Billing & Calling Cards
www.aleph-com.net/astpp

Thanks for all your responses. The reason we would not go through a
provider is that I run Asterisk phone systems, we have access to
bandwidth, and I can do this myself for a fraction of the cost.

Cheers