Re: [asterisk-biz] Spec advice

Well, as far as Asterisk goes, you won't get 1000+ concurrent callers or
1000 MeetMe rooms on a single box. That is just not really possible,
especially given the intensity of the audio mixing required to make
MeetMe rooms happen. You would have to build your infrastructure in a
distributed manner; set up x amount of conferences on several machines
that are each only capable of having y users, and have a proxy or
something of the sort route the calls to the machines based on that
information. Or, have the conference rooms dynamically created
according to need in a load-balanced manner.

I suppose it is also possible to bridge two conference bridges together,
technically, by stimulating an Originate command that has a kickback to
a MeetMe() cross-connect on the near end and the far end. This would
theoretically allow you to have distributed conferences in which the
members are on multiple servers. But I haven't tested how well this
works / if it is desirable in any way whatsoever.

Commercial solutions - there are lots of them, but they are all rather
expensive if you wish to install them out of the box, and on-premises,
and are difficult to work with and customise. If all you need is a
conference bridge, you might want to consider purchasing it as a service
from someone who already provides it on a very large scale, such as
RainDance, etc., who I believe does it using TDM telephony gear.

mroberts1818@gmail.com wrote:
> List,
>
> I'm putting together a conf bridge solution and the main requirement is,
>
> Must be scalable and out of the box be able to handle 1000 callers.
>
> Any advice on hardware and necessary bandwidth?
>
> Obviously looking to use asterisk but if there are better suited solutions it would be appreciated.
>
> Thx,
>
> - mike
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
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