by cbz-026 » Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:53 pm
Hi,
I have setup an Asterisk Server for my own telephony over IP between family and friends, with gateways to land lines and mobile phones, and it works quite well. I just added up a "fgcom.conf" file for use with FGCom.
The bandwidth heavily depends on the number of connected peers and on the codecs you use. Usually, the first codec used is the GSM one which has a bandwidth of about 13 kb/s for one peer. There are other codecs that can be used like G711 (uLaw for north america and aLaw for Europe).
Other codecs like G723 are of better quality and less bandwidth consuming but they are not free so I do not use them. Somehow, I am not a specialist of codecs in audio encoding.
With your bandwidth and computer power, I guess that you can have several peers connected at the same time. On my server, I usually saw about 15 ~ 20 peers connected with no relevant bandwidth issues.
About security, I sometimes see brute force attacks from servers which try to register a SIP account (they try to register with account "0000", then "0001", and so on until "9999"). Somehow, if you do not have any SIP accounts but only IAX2 accounts, there is no problems about such attacks that you can ignore. I have SIP accounts on my server but those attacks never succeeded (for the moment).
I hope this gives you some clues to setup an FGCom server. Feel free to ask me any questions if you want some help.
Regards,
Charles
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