Douglas Garstang
2005-Dec-06 22:31 UTC
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While we're on the topic, just what are those 3,000 improvements that Digium said where in Asterisk 1.2? Where are these improvements listed? Where are they documented? I'm sure Digum works insanely hard in the software and hardware department. I'd just like to see them work a little harder in the documentation deparment. Of course most of the problems are config problem, problems that could be fixed a lot faster if there was documentation. I think they'd also see a lot more sucess stories if Asterisk as a general rule addressed the issue of redundancy and the ability to add additional Asterisk servers for redundancy. No one wants to implement phone solution with a single point of failure. A good case in point is Asterisk realtime and it's apparent (I say apparent because it isn't officially documented anywhere) inability to share SIP contact information between Asterisk boxes in a common MySQL database. Call me crazy, but I would have thought this would have been a great way to share user contact info between multiple redundant Asterisk systems. -----Original Message----- From: Boris Bakchiev [mailto:boris@jildent.com.au] Sent: Tue 12/6/2005 10:01 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Win up to $2000 for AsteriskEnterpriseReferences! Why not? Digium works hard in hardware & software department. It constantly improves its hardware offering. The software arm has been busier then ever! Million bug fixes, MANY MANY improvements, roadmap (at least from what I can see from contributing developers in SVN) is amazing. Asterisk and Digium have great feature together. Admittedly almost all had problems in one place or another but most of it is "user/config" problem. I would not have invested in Digium's hardware and taken up asterisk if I were not confident that Asterisk can "cut it". If you take a look at general Digium & Asterisk are success stories in itself! I'd volunteer for sure but my little installation probably a drop in the ocean compare to the ones I hear and read about and Australia is not exactly has competitive market for that. :) In fact I share the same view about any company that supports Asterisk community. Even for Digium competitors (who have the same dedication as Digium as well) Give it a chance, lets not forget that Digium spends great time, effort and expense getting Asterisk to where it is now. I don't know of many hardware manufacturers that do the same thing. Regards >I was going to bite my tongue on my response to this, but keeping quiet is >driving me nuts. >If this is a legit post... >In short, this irritates the heck out of me. Maybe if Digum supplied some >documentation for less than $175/hr, then there might be a few success >stories. The lack of any official documentation in my opinion is limiting >the success of Asterisk. I seem to spend most of my Asterisk time >researching people's personal heresay about how to get stuff to work. Often .the personal heresay is just someone else's heresay cut and pasted. >Why the heck should anyone help Digium with good press in this instance? _______________________________________________ --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
Ryan Burke
2005-Dec-07 05:35 UTC
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While I'm not sure about the 1.2 ChangeLog the 1.2.1 that was released recently has an real Changelog that is linked at the top of Asterisk.org. http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.2.1 It looks like they put some effort into this one so I hope it continues for future releases. Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Garstang" <dgarstang@oneeighty.com> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>; "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Win up to $2000 for AsteriskEnterpriseReferences!> While we're on the topic, just what are those 3,000 improvements that > Digium said where in Asterisk 1.2? Where are these improvements listed? > Where are they documented? > > I'm sure Digum works insanely hard in the software and hardware > department. I'd just like to see them work a little harder in the > documentation deparment. > > Of course most of the problems are config problem, problems that could be > fixed a lot faster if there was documentation. > > I think they'd also see a lot more sucess stories if Asterisk as a general > rule addressed the issue of redundancy and the ability to add additional > Asterisk servers for redundancy. No one wants to implement phone solution > with a single point of failure. A good case in point is Asterisk realtime > and it's apparent (I say apparent because it isn't officially documented > anywhere) inability to share SIP contact information between Asterisk > boxes in a common MySQL database. Call me crazy, but I would have thought > this would have been a great way to share user contact info between > multiple redundant Asterisk systems. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boris Bakchiev [mailto:boris@jildent.com.au] > Sent: Tue 12/6/2005 10:01 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Cc: > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Win up to $2000 for > AsteriskEnterpriseReferences! > > > > Why not? > > Digium works hard in hardware & software department. > It constantly improves its hardware offering. > > The software arm has been busier then ever! Million bug fixes, MANY MANY > improvements, roadmap (at least from what I can see from contributing > developers in SVN) is amazing. > > Asterisk and Digium have great feature together. Admittedly almost all > had problems in one place or another but most of it is "user/config" > problem. > > I would not have invested in Digium's hardware and taken up asterisk if > I were not confident that Asterisk can "cut it". > > If you take a look at general Digium & Asterisk are success stories in > itself! > > I'd volunteer for sure but my little installation probably a drop in the > ocean compare to the ones I hear and read about and Australia is not > exactly has competitive market for that. :) > > In fact I share the same view about any company that supports Asterisk > community. Even for Digium competitors (who have the same dedication as > Digium as well) > > > Give it a chance, lets not forget that Digium spends great time, effort > and expense getting Asterisk to where it is now. I don't know of many > hardware manufacturers that do the same thing. > > Regards > > >I was going to bite my tongue on my response to this, but keeping quiet > is >driving me nuts. > > >If this is a legit post... > > >In short, this irritates the heck out of me. Maybe if Digum supplied > some >documentation for less than $175/hr, then there might be a few > success >stories. The lack of any official documentation in my opinion > is limiting >the success of Asterisk. I seem to spend most of my > Asterisk time >researching people's personal heresay about how to get > stuff to work. Often .the personal heresay is just someone else's > heresay cut and pasted. > > >Why the heck should anyone help Digium with good press in this > instance? > _______________________________________________ > --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 > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------> _______________________________________________ > --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 >
Anish Basu
2005-Dec-07 08:17 UTC
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Doug, We are in the process of implementing a large asterisk cluster for a client of ours using 6 servers. We tried sharing the sip contact information using the realtime architecture, but that did not work. Instead we resorted to using the Realtime Static configuration and many dialplan tricks to build our cluster. There are many different ways to cluster Asterisk servers together, and they all have their pros and cons. I would suggest taking a look at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+High+Availability+Solutions for some ideas. Anish Basu Field Systems Engineer Softel, Inc. Phone: (732) 705-9202 Cell: (732) 312-6634