While reading about how to maximize capabilities in asterisk i have read about SER and OpenSER. The sites do not explain to newbies (maybe that's on purpose) what are the benefits of using those products tied with asterisk (or is SER an asterisk replacement??) Can someone give me an idea of what's the usage for open(ser) and asterisk? is it for scalability? should I run it in the same box as asterisk or separated? does it add more functions to asterisk? or is the main function to better handle SIP over firewalls (due to SIP over TCP support)? Thanks for the explanation. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez ------------------------------------------------------------
Asterisk does to scale well. Use OpenSER or SER as a front end to asterisk. Make all the sip traffic go through ser and only go to Asterisk for voicemail, IVR i.e media stuff. If you connect to the PSTN using sip, then SER would be used for routing all PSTN calls. --- Erick Perez <eaperezh@gmail.com> wrote:> While reading about how to maximize capabilities in > asterisk i have > read about SER and OpenSER. > > The sites do not explain to newbies (maybe that's on > purpose) what are > the benefits of using those products tied with > asterisk (or is SER an > asterisk replacement??) > > Can someone give me an idea of what's the usage for > open(ser) and asterisk? > is it for scalability? > should I run it in the same box as asterisk or > separated? > does it add more functions to asterisk? > or is the main function to better handle SIP over > firewalls (due to > SIP over TCP support)? > > Thanks for the explanation. > > > > -- >------------------------------------------------------------> Erick Perez >------------------------------------------------------------> _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com > -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users>__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
If you do this, and not have Asterisk in the call setup path, your going to lose the ability to do a lot of features. What about black/white lists, rate centers, pic codes, intra company extension dialling and other advanced features? Sure, you might be able to do them with SER but good luck trying to find documentation. -----Original Message----- From: BILL GITONGA [mailto:bgitonga@yahoo.com] Sent: Tue 6/13/2006 7:14 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OPENSER / SER and Asterisk Asterisk does to scale well. Use OpenSER or SER as a front end to asterisk. Make all the sip traffic go through ser and only go to Asterisk for voicemail, IVR i.e media stuff. If you connect to the PSTN using sip, then SER would be used for routing all PSTN calls. --- Erick Perez <eaperezh@gmail.com> wrote: > While reading about how to maximize capabilities in > asterisk i have > read about SER and OpenSER. > > The sites do not explain to newbies (maybe that's on > purpose) what are > the benefits of using those products tied with > asterisk (or is SER an > asterisk replacement??) > > Can someone give me an idea of what's the usage for > open(ser) and asterisk? > is it for scalability? > should I run it in the same box as asterisk or > separated? > does it add more functions to asterisk? > or is the main function to better handle SIP over > firewalls (due to > SIP over TCP support)? > > Thanks for the explanation. > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Erick Perez > ------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com > -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Jun 13, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:> If you do this, and not have Asterisk in the call setup path, your > going to lose the ability to do a lot of features. What about > black/white lists, rate centers, pic codes, intra company extension > dialling and other advanced features? > > Sure, you might be able to do them with SER but good luck trying to > find documentation. >So, your saying asterisk has better documentation? I just want to be sure I understand you ;~)
asterisk has a extremely cool documentation. The wiki has everything a newbie like me could hope for.. with samples and everyhting./. where as we are having a very dificult time finding proper documentation or samples and stuff like thtt for SER.. may be if someone good with SER could update ther voip-info/wiki and write some basics abt the ser.cfg or somethjing .. then it would be great. Regards Santosh Rao Martin Joseph wrote:> > >On Jun 13, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > >> If you do this, and not have Asterisk in the call setup path, your >> going to lose the ability to do a lot of features. What about >> black/white lists, rate centers, pic codes, intra company extension >> dialling and other advanced features? >> >> Sure, you might be able to do them with SER but good luck trying to >> find documentation. >> >So, your saying asterisk has better documentation? I just want to be >sure I understand you ;~) > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
asterisk has a extremely cool documentation. The wiki has everything a newbie like me could hope for.. with samples and everyhting./. where as we are having a very dificult time finding proper documentation or samples and stuff like thtt for SER.. may be if someone good with SER could update ther voip-info/wiki and write some basics abt the ser.cfg or somethjing .. then it would be great. Regards Santosh Rao Martin Joseph wrote:> > >On Jun 13, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > >> If you do this, and not have Asterisk in the call setup path, your >> going to lose the ability to do a lot of features. What about >> black/white lists, rate centers, pic codes, intra company extension >> dialling and other advanced features? >> >> Sure, you might be able to do them with SER but good luck trying to >> find documentation. >> >So, your saying asterisk has better documentation? I just want to be >sure I understand you ;~) > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Joseph [mailto:ast@stillnewt.org] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:12 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OPENSER / SER and Asterisk > > > > On Jun 13, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > > If you do this, and not have Asterisk in the call setup path, your > > going to lose the ability to do a lot of features. What about > > black/white lists, rate centers, pic codes, intra company extension > > dialling and other advanced features? > > > > Sure, you might be able to do them with SER but good luck trying to > > find documentation. > > > So, your saying asterisk has better documentation? I just want to be > sure I understand you ;~)Absolutely. The SER/OpenSER documentation is terrible, and if you post to the OpenSER mailing list, you get very cryptic replies.
Agreed.> -----Original Message----- > From: Santosh Rao [mailto:santoshr@staff.ownmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:19 PM > To: Martin Joseph > Cc: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OPENSER / SER and Asterisk > > > asterisk has a extremely cool documentation. The wiki has > everything a newbie like me could hope for.. with samples and > everyhting./. where as we are having a very dificult time > finding proper documentation or samples and stuff like thtt for SER.. > may be if someone good with SER could update ther > voip-info/wiki and write some basics abt the ser.cfg or > somethjing .. then it would be great. > > Regards > Santosh Rao > > > Martin Joseph wrote: > > > > >On Jun 13, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > > >> If you do this, and not have Asterisk in the call setup path, your > >> going to lose the ability to do a lot of features. What about > >> black/white lists, rate centers, pic codes, intra company > extension > >> dialling and other advanced features? > >> > >> Sure, you might be able to do them with SER but good luck > trying to > >> find documentation. > >> > >So, your saying asterisk has better documentation? I just > want to be > >sure I understand you ;~) > > > >_______________________________________________ > >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > >Asterisk-Users mailing list > >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Michel Hiver [mailto:jhiver@ykoz.net] > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:47 AM > To: Santosh Rao; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial > Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OPENSER / SER and Asterisk > > > Santosh Rao a ?crit : > > >asterisk has a extremely cool documentation. The wiki has > everything a newbie like me could hope for.. with samples and > everyhting./. where as we are having a very dificult time > finding proper documentation or samples and stuff like thtt for SER.. > >may be if someone good with SER could update ther > voip-info/wiki and write some basics abt the ser.cfg or > somethjing .. then it would be great. > > > > > You can find some very good SER tutorials on onsip.org. > > You need to subscribe though, but it's free.I haven't read the tutorials, so I could be wrong, but I doubt they'd be very much use. They probably don't do more than give a basic overview, and I'm sure they don't touch things like avpops.
*lol* The cryptic replies have been exactly my problem as well!> -----Original Message----- > From: kjcsb [mailto:kjcsb@orcon.net.nz] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:37 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OPENSER / SER and Asterisk > > > Absolutely. The SER/OpenSER documentation is terrible, and if > you post to > the OpenSER mailing list, you get very cryptic replies. > _______________________________________________ > > Whilst I would agree with you regarding SER, the > documentation of OpenSER is > far better. > > Documentation of Asterisk Realtime on the other hand. Now > *that's* terrible. > > Cameron > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
> -----Original Message----- > From: kjcsb [mailto:kjcsb@orcon.net.nz] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:37 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OPENSER / SER and Asterisk > > > Absolutely. The SER/OpenSER documentation is terrible, and if > you post to > the OpenSER mailing list, you get very cryptic replies. > _______________________________________________ > > Whilst I would agree with you regarding SER, the > documentation of OpenSER is > far better. > > Documentation of Asterisk Realtime on the other hand. Now > *that's* terrible.*lol* It's funny because it's so true!
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