The following is an excerpt from a recent post on the Voicespan blog – Avoiding a Packet Storm.
Sticking tens of SIP endpoints on your network should be a painless exercise. If you’ve planned your network properly then 100 Mb/s is more than adequate to carry the resulting VoIP traffic. But if you start talking about hundreds of endpoints instead of tens, whilst remaining with a single Asterisk PBX, then you may find that on a regular basis your network is briefly flooded with traffic (a ‘packet storm’). You may also discover that some endpoints are disconnecting from time to time. Why is this happening? You have enough bandwidth, but still you have problems.
Click through to the full blog post if you want to find out how to avoid a packet storm on Asterisk PBX’s.
