asterisk users - Feb 2007 - Can Asterisk handle 7000 SIP users?

Hi All,

One of my customer asked me if Asterisk can handle 7000 SIP users. They want  
anyone that have access to wireless hotspot to make voice calls to the office 
using software phone or SIP cordless phone.

 Does anybody did such a setup? What are hardware requirements for server and 
how much bandwidth I will need using comercial codec?


Thank you in advance,

	Dominik

Copy and paste from my reply to a similar question a couple of weeks ago:

5000 sip registrations is quite a lot, but the more important thing is 
the number of simultaneous calls.
If most of your calls is going to be SIP 2 SIP then I would suggest you 
use openSER for the SIP registrations and most SIP call routing and use 
asterisk only for calls to/from PSTN and media such as voicemail and 
announcements.

openSER is made for this and is a lot faster at doing SIP call setup.  
Then use asterisk where it is good.
There are good examples of setting up openSER with asterisk on the net 
sharing a MySQL DB for users, auth etc.

Have a look at 
http://openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/asterisk:realtime-integration and 
other Asterisk related info at http://openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php


M

Dominik Zalewski wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> One of my customer asked me if Asterisk can handle 7000 SIP users. They
want
> anyone that have access to wireless hotspot to make voice calls to the
office
> using software phone or SIP cordless phone.
>
>  Does anybody did such a setup? What are hardware requirements for server
and
> how much bandwidth I will need using comercial codec?
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> 	Dominik
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