Hello,
I am running a small installation of asterisk and looking for future
expansion of it to handle thousands of users. From what I read I see that
usually large installation place OpenSER (or similar solution) in front of
Asterisk in order to provide high call rate because "OpenSER does only
signalling while Asterisk does all". My question is: If Asterisk also does
only signalling (i.e. the voice traffic goes directly between the phones and
not via asterisk) is it still that slow? I preffer to have one software
package rather than dealing with two.
Thanks! __Yehavi:
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Look into FreeSwitch. http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FreeSwitch_FAQ On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Yehavi Bourvine <yehavi.bourvine at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > > I am running a small installation of asterisk and looking for future > expansion of it to handle thousands of users. From what I read I see that > usually large installation place OpenSER (or similar solution) in front of > Asterisk in order to provide high call rate because "OpenSER does only > signalling while Asterisk does all". My question is: If Asterisk also does > only signalling (i.e. the voice traffic goes directly between the phones and > not via asterisk) is it still that slow? I preffer to have one software > package rather than dealing with two. > > Thanks! __Yehavi: > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- Thanks, Steve Totaro +18887771888 (Toll Free) +12409381212 (Cell) +12024369784 (Skype)
On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Yehavi Bourvine wrote:> Hello, > > I am running a small installation of asterisk and looking for > future expansion of it to handle thousands of users. From what I > read I see that usually large installation place OpenSER (or similar > solution) in front of Asterisk in order to provide high call rate > because "OpenSER does only signalling while Asterisk does all". My > question is: If Asterisk also does only signalling (i.e. the voice > traffic goes directly between the phones and not via asterisk) is it > still that slow? I preffer to have one software package rather than > dealing with two. > > Thanks! __Yehavi:Asterisk is capable of handling both thousands of users and large call volumes easily. I have done both, without SER or other "front-end" software. The specifics of your installation of course may push you towards other solutions that may involve a pure SIP proxy, but without more data I would suggest that Asterisk is usually sufficient with no more thought for design than other solutions would require. I would suggest creating a test environment that mimics your expected higher load situations and testing for yourself, and believe little of what others claim, including myself. Create an array of Asterisk machines that simulate user populations, and point them at your testing system. This will allow you to determine, given your specific environment and requirements, if various solutions can be used successfully. My bet is that you'll find that Asterisk as your single package will be sufficient. Hints: Will SIP redirection work for you? How about re-INVITEs? Does Linux HA give any solutions? L3 load sharing? JT --- John Todd jtodd at digium.com +1-256-428-6083 Asterisk Open Source Community Director