How much will a 3300 take

[FrankGrimes]

I have a Mitel MXE 3300 with 450 users two 30 channel ISDN service 30 sip trunks to 4 different phone system, and will be installing another 100 handset next week and 12 more sip channels on another from another carrier?

I know the specs for my system are 1400 users but I still worried that one of these days the system will just pop.

How hard have you pushed your system?

 

[DoubleUT]

For questions like this Mitel has a System Engineering Tool available. Login at MOL and goto Training. Select Technician's Toolbox.

 

[Lundah]

Definitely check the SE tool or talk to your dealer if you're an end-user. Assuming you have an expanded MXE (which is what the 1400 user variant is), you have enough resources to handle all your trunks and devices, the only thing you need to worry about is traffic volume.

Honestly, however, IP endpoints (SIP trunks and IP phones) put very little load on the controller since it's only involved in the call setup and teardown, the actual traffic is all handled in the IP layer between the endpoints. A call involving one of the ISDN channels will use far more resources since the controller has to do the IP-to-TDM conversion. An expanded MXE has 128 E2T channels which is plenty to handle your ISDN circuits.

 

[LoopyLou]

Agree with Lundah. The MXe only handles the setup and tear down of calls ( whether standard VoIP or SIP ) as well as monitoring the status of the phones. All voice packets stream between IP sets or between the IP set and the SIP trunking gateway. This puts little load on the controller. There are some areas that have to be considered like sockets. The system at various loads supports different amounts of sockets. High end IP sets like the 5330 and 5340 sets consume these sockets as do applications like UCA. The sales engineering tool can help to make sure you don't exceed the limitations of the software or the controller.

I'd tell you a UDP joke but I'm afraid you won't get it. TCP jokes are the best because you always get them.

 

[kwbMitel]

for 1400 users, confirm that you have the expansion processor installed. Don't assume.

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[FrankGrimes]

Yes I have an expansion pack. I just used that tool and it said its only going to use 56% capacity.
What software do you guys use to monitor your Mitel? I've used one SNMP piece of software but it only give basic data link, trunks up, user online.
I wouldn't mind something that has CPU load, lines used etc..

 

[LoopyLou]

Don't know of anyting that will give you reports on CPU load although have been asked to check the Martello remote monitoring product as it is supposed to have some type of reporting capability.


I'd tell you a UDP joke but I'm afraid you won't get it. TCP jokes are the best because you always get them.