Hello ,
 
I would like to share with you the email below that I exchanged with the representative of Mera Systems. I was about to evaluate their product  when I stumbled with FS. He, of course, is trying to say that FS is not able to support more than 300 simultaneous calls and that I should buy their product.
 
Anyway, the intention is only to ask for some comments from the guys who really know how FS behave in a production environment.
 
Thank you
 
Jair Santos
 
 
 
 Hi Jair,
 
We have over 1000 high-end developers on staff in Russia, we write software for Nortel (Meridian PBXes), Siemens, Alcatel, Ericsson, etc. Why would we use Asterisk as a core for our systems? Some of our products can deliver Call Per Second rates up to 1000, I guess about 50 times more than Asterisk :)))
 
Might be that someone telling this to you mixed us with PortaOne, a Ukrainian developer. They, indeed, use Asterisk and SER in their products, like most other companies selling "their" switching solutions.
 
In any case, as a start-up the path you are taling is reasonable, but I really doubt you will stay on Freeswitch once you hit 300 calls in peak. Or - you will need to run lots of unbinded servers with separate IPs, each supporting some 300 calls.
 
Dmitry.
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Jair Santos
To: 'Dmitry Stafeev'
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:59 PM
Subject: RE: New Registration at mera-systems.com (from Canada)

What we've  heard is that it is much better than Asterisk which I guess is the base of your system.
 
The information from the FS home page.
 

Performance

  • Tested under load for over 100 hours
  • 10,000,000+ calls
  • At rates exceeding 50 CPS

Performance will vary depending on application. You will need to test for your particular situation.