Monday, March 17, 2008

Re: [asterisk-biz] Spec advice

http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-users@lists.digium.com/msg199936.html

Depending on your configuration, such as codec translation, TDM, etc
will determine the amount of servers required. I would think you
could probably get it done with three good servers doing strictly SIP
with same codec.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Alex Balashov
<abalashov@evaristesys.com> wrote:
> 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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