asterisk users - May 2012 - Common/Reasonable Assumption on DID/Channel over-subscription

Hello All,

just throwing this out there. What are people generally using these days
when designing their services, esp. those that require a user to call a DID
to access their system, similar to calling card services. There was a time
when this used to be 50 to 1 for DIDs, and about 10 to 1 for number of
channels bought in SMB with IP-PBX.

I believe this would have changed today and assuming a service is pretty
popular, the ALOCs are longer due to cheaper rates and convenience of
calling. Does anyone have any real world numbers they can share? Is 10 to 1
a good ratio to ensure a user practically never gets a "circuits are
busy"?

Thanks in advance
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I don't think it's possible to suggest a ratio without knowing what your
actual application "similar to calling card services" is.

--Don

Don Kelly

PCF Corp
People Come First
651 842-1000
651 842-1001 fax

 

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Hello All,

 

just throwing this out there. What are people generally using these days
when designing their services, esp. those that require a user to call a DID
to access their system, similar to calling card services. There was a time
when this used to be 50 to 1 for DIDs, and about 10 to 1 for number of
channels bought in SMB with IP-PBX. 

 

I believe this would have changed today and assuming a service is pretty
popular, the ALOCs are longer due to cheaper rates and convenience of
calling. Does anyone have any real world numbers they can share? Is 10 to 1
a good ratio to ensure a user practically never gets a "circuits are
busy"?

 

Thanks in advance

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