asterisk users - Jul 2004 - Astricon Conference Call?

I thought the interesting exercise would be to use asterisk for the
task. Couldn't we use a kind of distributed conference call where a few
key select/high bandwidth asterisk servers form the main conference and
then have multiple layers of conferencing. That way no one
server/network is saturated.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joseph
Finley
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:45 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Astricon Conference Call?

Charlie Hedlin wrote:
> Who is the ISP for the conference center?  I used to work for Wayport 
> and know lots of people there with clue.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 
>> If possible, we will broadcast the Asterisk Developer's meeting on 
>> the friday.
>>
>> Internet connections in conference hotels is a complex and utterly 
>> commercial story, where it is easy to reach sales, but not easy to 
>> reach someone that has a clue.
>>
>> We don't know what we can do, what the specifics are in regards to 
>> NAT and FW is and the available bandwidth...
>>
>> As soon as we know, we'll inform the community. This also applies
to
>> WLAN in conference rooms :-)
>>
>> /Olle
>> _______________________________________________

What about running some type of ShoutCast server and allow people to hit
it with WinAmp or RealPLayer.  ShoutCast servers can be fed to multiple
servers online so one particular server doesn't get killed.








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if it is of help, i can handle some internet bandwidth; two stm-1s
to a quite underloaded * server, which is on gige.  but i can not
provide local pstn gating.

randy

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Steve Woolley wrote:
> I thought the interesting exercise would be to use asterisk for the
> task. Couldn't we use a kind of distributed conference call where a few
> key select/high bandwidth asterisk servers form the main conference and
> then have multiple layers of conferencing. That way no one
> server/network is saturated.
As long as you ensure that no-one can SPEAK in the conference, this should 
be just fine.

The Conference could be beamed out to a single Asterisk server (The 
Master) and then distributed via IAX2 and MeetMe to a bunch of servers in 
different area codes (The Slaves).

We do this all the time between my IAX2/guest@pbx.nacs.net/4570 bridge, 
BKW's system and occasionally the NuFone MeetMe.

It would be trivial to coordinate. I can provide a high-bandwidth 
distribution point, and NuFone has offered the same. I don't see any 
reason why this can't be easily accomplished.

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