I want to create a VoIP solution to allow many members of a closed community to talk to each other (one on one) via soft phones. In many ways, what I want is not unlike Skype, except that it would allow for relative anonymity and be open only to a select group. The system should support as many as 500 simultaneous users located on different continents. Is Asterisk an appropriate tool to use in such a scenario, assuming that hardware and bandwidth issues could be surmounted? I appreciate any advice. Perhaps, maybe, soon-to-be Asterisk user. Paul
Paul Klipp a ?crit :>I want to create a VoIP solution to allow many members of a closed community >to talk to each other (one on one) via soft phones. In many ways, what I >want is not unlike Skype, except that it would allow for relative anonymity >and be open only to a select group. The system should support as many as 500 >simultaneous users located on different continents. > >Is Asterisk an appropriate tool to use in such a scenario, assuming that >hardware and bandwidth issues could be surmounted? > >Asterisk would be fine - although if you don't want IVR / voicemail / etc features, you might also want to consider SER. Cheers, Jean-Michel.
trixter aka Bret McDanel
2006-Jan-17 06:59 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk the right tool?
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 14:46 +0100, Paul Klipp wrote:> I want to create a VoIP solution to allow many members of a closed community > to talk to each other (one on one) via soft phones. In many ways, what I > want is not unlike Skype, except that it would allow for relative anonymity > and be open only to a select group. The system should support as many as 500 > simultaneous users located on different continents. >select groups and anonymity dont go well together, but that aside... If its just point to point via sip phones and you just need a central system to route the calls directly asterisk may be overkill. If however you want to do voicemail, or other applications (conferencing, ivr, etc) then it may be a better choice. If you just need a sip proxy (where sip phones register) and allow direct connections to each other, ser (http://www.iptel.org/ser) may be a better choice. It tends to handle more users for sip on less hardware, this is largely becuase it does less. Its only a sip proxy and doesnt do any of the applications, media gateways, etc. Freeworld dialup uses SER. Now if you want to make it more anonymous you may want asterisk to be more of a man in the middle so the only IP that someone would see is that of the server (requires more bandwidth, potentially larger server, etc) then you may want asterisk, as ser will not be able to do this by itself. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060117/f7f72621/attachment.pgp