Hi, just a side not about the FreeBSD - you did not explicitly state whether your results were for proxy or routed mode - but it happens that I have most of my GnuGk installations on FreeBSD systems, which handle 10-15xE1s of traffic on average per server on a low end cpus with remtoe RADIUS and SQL AAA. Also some of the issues you mentioned has been already fixed, although handling more than 1000 concurrent calls may be problematic and not "plug & play". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Riedinger" <riedinger@xxxxxx> To: "GNU Gatekeeper Users" <openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:55 AM Subject: Re: GnuGK vs MERA MVTS Hello Jove, I evaluated gnugk two years ago. Thus, maybe my statements are not up to date. And maybe I'm biased, because I have Mera Reseller agreement. However, two years ago gnugk was not carrier grade: I had performance problems, with mvts 1 you can handle more than 1000 - 2000 with a standard PC. With gnugk I was able to handle under FreeBSD with a two processor system at maximum 130 simultanous calls. But I heard with Linux more than 300 were possible. gnugk had had no 2cd choice routing. If the first routing choice signals "no circuit" there was no chance to reroute the call to a 2cd choice. It was decided by random, when the call duration in the CDRs were rounded up and rounded down to the next integer number. It was not possible to restrict calls by using ip adresses. This was indirectly possible anyway by using aliases (I dont remember exactly), but you had the precondition that your customer didn't change the name of his GW. This was a no go for me, because I couldnt make my routing dependend on the configuration of my customer. Mera can do transcoding (e.g from g723 to g729). There are a lot of option for call distribution if you have more than one supplier. I'm a fan of free software, but if you want to use gnugk as carrier with a lot of E1 call capacity I dont think that gnugk is (at least was) a good option. If you want to use it for a company proxy it is probably good enough. However, there is strong trend for using SIP. Thus I'm currently evaluating to use SER and maybe Asterisk or a Cisco for transcoding to reduce licence fees. BR Jan Riedinger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________________ Posting: mailto:Openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=openh323gk-users Unsubscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openh323gk-users Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/
