How to choose hardware for your call center

When you choose hardware for asterCC Commercial Call Center system, you need consider the following facts

• Concurrent Calls
• Concurrent Agents (login via browser or login via phone)
• Modules
• Trunk and codec
• Customer package scale
• Reliability

For a bigger system, you can use several servers for different work load, system are made up with three parts

• PBX – require hard disk I/O(with recording)
• Mysql Database – depends on the customer packages, it requires both CPU, memory and H.D. I/O, also you may need a Master/Master or Master/Slave system for H.A.
• WEB – it depends on agents logged via browser, usually you need a new server every 60 agents, it requires CPU

For your reference, here's are some hardware using by customers, it only tells us what our customer are using now, doesn't mean it reaches the maximum performance.

• 50 concurrent calls
• 20 Agents login from browser
• Modules: Campaign,Predictive Dialer
• SIP Trunk，g729 Codec
• Hardware
  • Vendor: Customer DIY
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230
  • Mother Board: B75
  • Memory: 8G DDR3 1600
  • H.D.: 250G SSD

• 60 concurrent calls
• 40 Agents login from browser
• Modules: Campaign,Predictive Dialer,E-commerce,Products & Orders
• Sangoma E1 Card
• Hardware
  • Vendor: Customer DIY
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2620 x 2
  • Mother Board: Intel S2600CP2
  • Memory: Kingstone 8G DDR1333REGECC x 4
  • H.D.: Seagate T1000NM0011 1TB SATAIII64M x 3

• 100 concurrent calls
• 50 Agents login from browser
• Modules: Campaign,Predictive Dialer
• SIP Trunk，g729 Codec
• Hardware
  • Vendor: Customer DIY
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 3.4
  • Mother Board: B75
  • Memory: 8G DDR3 1600
  • H.D.: 250G SSD.

• 80 concurrent calls
• 62 Agents login from browser
• Modules: Campaign,Predictive Dialer,Customer Service
• SIP Trunk，g729 Codec
• Hardware
  • Vendor: DELL R710
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E5606 @ 2.13
  • Memory: 8G

• 100 concurrent calls
• 90 Agents login from browser
• Modules: Campaign,Predictive Dialer
• SIP Trunk，g729 Codec
• Hardware
  • Vendor: Levenal x 3
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2609 @ 2.4
  • Memory: 16G

• 250 concurrent calls
• 120 Agents login from browser
• Modules: Campaign,Predictive Dialer
• SIP Trunk
• Hardware
  • Vendor: DELL R720 x 3
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E6260
  • Memory: 12G(4G x 3) 1333
  • H.D.: SATA Raid5

• 120 concurrent calls
• 150 Agents login from browser
• Modules: Campaign,Predictive Dialer,E-commerce,Products & Orders
• SIP Trunk
• Hardware
  • Vendor: DELL R510
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E5506 x 2
  • Memory: 8G
  • Vendor: DELL R710
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E5606 x 2
  • Memory: 8G
  • Vendor: DELL R720
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2603 @ 1.80GHz x 2
  • Memory: 8G

• 250 concurrent calls
• 200 Agents login from browser
• Modules: Campaign,Predictive Dialer,Customer Service
• SIP Trunk
• Hardware
  • Vendor: DELL R710 x 4
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E5620
  • Memory: 12G(4G x 3) 1333
  • H.D.: SATA Raid5