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On 08/30/2012 02:13 PM, Ken Rice wrote:
> lol... actually using a pretty heavy duty machine (i think it was like a
>   quad hexa-core machine) Anthony demonstrated 10K concurrent call
> playing a 30 second sound file,  while initiating 1000 new calls per
> second at cluecon in 2011...

I remember mentioning similar numbers at a FreeSWITCH presentation in 
the Netherlands a few years back (but only after verifying the numbers 
several times with Anthony and Brian since they were quite hefty). At 
the presentation oej was in the audience and when I mentioned those 
numbers he jumped up and said "impossible!". That was a fun discussion. 
I referred him to Anthony but never heard if he actually did and if he 
accepted those numbers to be true.

> so the scalability is there at least in some form.... the problem is, do
> you really want 5000 concurrent calls potentially $100/minute worth of
> cheap calls going through a machine that can hard fail and leave you
> losing 5K to 10K CDRs...

I would not. And I prefer Gigabit Ethernet over an OC12 link any day. 
But if you use something like a Stratus box then it should be possible 
to get at least 5 nines availability. The question is off course if such 
a solution is financially viable as those Stratus boxes don't come cheap.

Regards,
Patrick