9000 Series

[gmcust3]

Intel® Itanium® processor 9000 with 16 MB RAM.

Can above Processor Support 50 seats ??

All Outbnd
All Recording
Only SIP
1:4 Dial Ratio Max
G729 Codec

I am trying to avoid multiple server but I know thats the way to go ahead for good and perfect setup using Load Balancing.

[mflorell]

No

[gmcust3]

40 seats ??

[Op3r]

no

[gmcust3]

Max 30 seats ?

More than 30 , 2 servers reqd ?

[mflorell]

How reliable do you want it to be?

Do you have any possibility of moving the G729 transcoding off to a hardware card or another machine?

[gmcust3]

1) Correction : 16 mb to 16 GB

2) Reliability : Has to be there

3) Always Software based G729 Codecs.

4) G729 from Digium and from lvhosting.. Difference in performance ?

I actually Tried Quadcore with 30 seats with 4 GB Ram and it was smooth.

[mflorell]

G729 software transcoding kills your processor, cuts your total capacity in half.

[gmcust3]

What if all same but using G711 ?

[mflorell]

Maybe, we haven't tested that exact kind of setup though because you get better and more consistent results as well as more redundancy by spending less money and getting more lower-level servers to distribute that load.

[gmcust3]

I have seen Consultant in India recommending 100 seats on Core2Duo.

Wow.. !!

But that help in bringing BAD name to the Vici and Not to the Consultant.

[mflorell]

very familiar story, sadly we hear it all the time.

[gmcust3]

But Ironically, I have seen center with IBM System x3200M2 with 50 seats. On Single server !!!

[mflorell]

Well, it's not like that is impossible, on a multi-server system for one of our clients(dedicated DB and web servers) we have had one server that handled 100 agents, inbound only 1:1 line ratio with full recording and it worked just fine.

[gmcust3]

They do 50 with outbnd at 1:4 Max level and all recordings.

[gardo]

It's possible. However, you missed the point. As Matt mentioned, it's better to spread the load on less expensive servers than have it all on one expensive server.