Re: [asterisk-biz] Asterisk Performance as a B2BUA

"The test was configured to simulate a wholesale VoIP operation with
three minute call durations and an average of two call retries for every
completed call."

Jai Rangi wrote:
> Good work, What was the length of each call.
>
> -Jai
> "Buy SIP DID with 20 channels at www.didforsale.com
> <http://www.didforsale.com>"
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Jim Dalton <jim.dalton@transnexus.com
> <mailto:jim.dalton@transnexus.com>> wrote:
>
> In 2007 we published the results of a performance test of Asterisk
> as a Back
> to Back User Agent (B2BUA). Based on the helpful feedback from the
> mailing
> list we improved our test procedures and re-ran a new performance
> test case
> of Asterisk configured as a B2BUA.
>
> Our test platform hosting Asterisk was a $1000 Dell PowerEdge 840 with a
> Quad Core Xeon X3220, 2x4M cache, 2.40 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB and 4 GB RAM.
> Redhat V5 was the operating system. The test was configured to
> simulate a
> wholesale VoIP operation with three minute call durations and an
> average of
> two call retries for every completed call. This was an "out of the box"
> Asterisk configuration with default settings and no optimizations.
>
> We found that Asterisk on the test server could handle approximately
> 1000
> simultaneous calls with no codec transalation. This works out to be
> about a
> $1 per port investment for a B2BUA platform.
>
> When calls were transcoded from G.711 to G.729, the call capacity
> fell to
> 320 simultaneous calls. With the added cost of of the G.729 codec
> royalty
> and the lower call capacity, the cost increases to approximately
> $13.50 per
> port
>
> You can download the test results and all the test plan details from:
> http://www.transnexus.com/White%20Papers/Performance_Test_of_Asterisk_v1-4.h
> tm
> <http://www.transnexus.com/White%20Papers/Performance_Test_of_Asterisk_v1-4.htm>
>
> Jim Dalton
> VoIP Routing, Accounting, Security
> 1.404.526.6053
> www.TransNexus.com <http://www.TransNexus.com>
>
>
>
>
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