asterisk users - Oct 2004 - De-Centralized / Distributed Conferencing App

Does such a thing exist?

Here is my problem. I've got 300+ people that want to be on a single 
conference call. Not sure if a single Asterisk server could survive it. 
I was thinking of putting trunks in between the servers - but quickly 
realized I'm just giving the audio an extra HOP to traverse - and there 
is still one box that's going to get slammed.

Anyone have any ideas?

It would be nice if there was something that allowed you to host x 
amount of people on one server and x amount on another and created one 
rtp stream between them with all the combined audio to link the two 
servers together. An idea anyways.

Thanks,

  - Darren

On October 26, 2004 03:59 pm, Darren Sessions wrote:
> Here is my problem. I've got 300+ people that want to be on a single
> conference call. Not sure if a single Asterisk server could survive it.
> I was thinking of putting trunks in between the servers - but quickly
> realized I'm just giving the audio an extra HOP to traverse - and there
> is still one box that's going to get slammed.
Does anyone have any numbers on how many people were listening in on Astricon?  
I know a lot of people were watching me cuss on IRC on the bigscreen before I 
realized I was on there but I thought there were hundreds of people listening 
to the conference.

-A.