I know this is casting a wide net, but If you were charged with building a large, public VOIP network with multiple PSTN gateways, the capacity to carry a lot of traffic and bill clients accurately, what pieces (brands, makes, models) would you use to assemble the solution? Assume that $$$ is not an issue. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050215/d5d12e59/attachment.htm
Lol, these questions crack me up. Send me a large brown bag full of unmarked bills and I'll tell you how, in case you don't have a large brown bag the answer is RTFM and then come back. ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Rod Bacon Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:30 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] A hypothetical question... I know this is casting a wide net, but If you were charged with building a large, public VOIP network with multiple PSTN gateways, the capacity to carry a lot of traffic and bill clients accurately, what pieces (brands, makes, models) would you use to assemble the solution? Assume that $$$ is not an issue. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050215/ef06ac4b/attachment.htm
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:33, Stefan Gofferje wrote:> Rod Bacon schrieb: > > I know this is casting a wide net, but If you were charged with building > > a large, public VOIP network with multiple PSTN gateways, the capacity > > to carry a lot of traffic and bill clients accurately, what pieces > > (brands, makes, models) would you use to assemble the solution? Assume > > that $$$ is not an issue. > > If money is no matter? Cisco... Callmanager Cluster, Gateways......and the reports are that you will be throwing $$$s at crap.> Endpoints may be chosen freely. > > --Stefan-- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states."
Dean, which "M" would you have me read? I have been "R"ing "T"he "F"ing "M" for several months now, and have tried a number of products personally, but my very point is that it is physically impossible to test ALL PSTN gateways, ALL softswitches, ALL radius/billing solutions myself. I was counting on getting some meaningful comments from people who have positive/negative experience with various VOIP network components. Thanks to those who submitted meaningful responses. .but I'm pretty sure I'll steer well clear of Call Mangler. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050215/7d287974/attachment.htm
Rod, I know this is an Asterisk mailing list, but for larger installations, you should probably go with one of the larger commercial vendors. For a purely routing network, I would use Cisco routers and switches. I'm recommending 28xx series routers to my customers at the minute; they're very flexible and powerful, at quite a reasonable price. They can take a huge variety of interface cards, can talk SIP, H.323, MGCP, and have a VoiceXML browser built in. Avaya or Siemens would also be acceptable. For an office network with both routing and IP handsets, I would definitely use a Cisco Call Manager (CCM) cluster. I've worked on a number of CCM projects within IBM, the largest being 2500 users. This was on 2 redundant Call Manager clusters, plus assorted routers for PSTN and IVR access over T1s, and PoE switches for all the handsets. It works very successfully, and IBM are rolling out CCM at all new sites. My company, Integrics Ltd, does installations of, and development for, Cisco equipment including VoIP routing and CCM. Drop me an email or give me a call if you have more detailed questions. Alistair Cunningham, Integrics Ltd, Telephony, Database, Unix consulting worldwide +44 (0)7870 699 479 http://integrics.com/ Rod Bacon wrote:> I know this is casting a wide net, but If you were charged with building > a large, public VOIP network with multiple PSTN gateways, the capacity > to carry a lot of traffic and bill clients accurately, what pieces > (brands, makes, models) would you use to assemble the solution? Assume > that $$$ is not an issue. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
If you want VoIP and accurate billing then go with webvoip w.webvoip.com -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Rod Bacon Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:30 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] A hypothetical question... I know this is casting a wide net, but If you were charged with building a large, public VOIP network with multiple PSTN gateways, the capacity to carry a lot of traffic and bill clients accurately, what pieces (brands, makes, models) would you use to assemble the solution? Assume that $$$ is not an issue. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050215/734a98ed/attachment.htm
The complete configuration of such a system requires a lot more of information that the one you gave.But, at a glance, Asterisk + SER is a good choice for this kind of venture. Asterisk can serve as the PSTN gateway (ISDN PRI connections primarily) and Voicemail server. SER can manage the billing and the VOIP-client part. You can mount as many as Asterisk and SER servers as much as your traffic will require. So, you don't have to spend a lot of $$$ to mount such a large implementation. As I mention earlier, this is just a fast glimpse to a complete solution, I personally have such an implementation, and let me tell you that this works really great!!! Hope this helps Marco -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Rod Bacon Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:30 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] A hypothetical question... I know this is casting a wide net, but If you were charged with building a large, public VOIP network with multiple PSTN gateways, the capacity to carry a lot of traffic and bill clients accurately, what pieces (brands, makes, models) would you use to assemble the solution? Assume that $$$ is not an issue. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050215/cfb13800/attachment.htm