asterisk users - Nov 2010 - How many Asterisk PBX operating in the World?

Hi,

Sorry for maybe not a very list related topic, but I have always been curious if
there is information on how many Asterisk based PBXs are operating Worldwide?

Thanks and hope the community will not reject my curiosity! :)

Best Regards,
Vallu
Sevana Oy
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Hi,

 

Sorry for maybe not a very list related topic, but I have always been
curious if there is information on how many Asterisk based PBXs are
operating Worldwide?

 

Thanks and hope the community will not reject my curiosity! :)

 

Best Regards,
Vallu

Sevana Oy

 

There is probably not a reliable answer to this question since there are at
least 4 major ?flavors? of Asterisk out there (1.0/1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8) and
open and commercial source.   It is reliably > 10,000 and quite possibly
over 100,000 or even over 1 million.  The asterisk folks might be willing to
tell you how many downloads have been done from www.asterisk.org
<http://www.asterisk.org/> , but that wouldn?t tell you the real number.

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2010/11/17 Sevana Oy <sales at sevana.fi>:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for maybe not a very list related topic, but I have always been
> curious if there is information on how many Asterisk based PBXs are
> operating Worldwide?
>
> Thanks and hope the community will not reject my curiosity! :)
>
> Best Regards,
> Vallu
> Sevana Oy
> --
John Todd should have a good answer for this.  I would start my
estimate at 200,000+ if you are including all of the versions and
types.  Software like BigBlueButton includes Asterisk so it can get
confusing real fast.

~
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Andrew Latham <lathama at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2010/11/17 Sevana Oy <sales at sevana.fi>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry for maybe not a very list related topic, but I have always been
>> curious if there is information on how many Asterisk based PBXs are
>> operating Worldwide?
>>
>> Thanks and hope the community will not reject my curiosity! :)
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Vallu
>> Sevana Oy
>> --
>
> John Todd should have a good answer for this. ?I would start my
> estimate at 200,000+ if you are including all of the versions and
> types. ?Software like BigBlueButton includes Asterisk so it can get
> confusing real fast.
>
How do you figure this number? I would suspect is a lot higher,
especially if you consider just Digium sales in the equation.
> ~
> Andrew "lathama" Latham
> lathama at gmail.com
>
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>
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Am 17.11.2010 18:06, schrieb Andrew Latham:
> John Todd should have a good answer for this.  I would start my
> estimate at 200,000+ if you are including all of the versions and
> types.  Software like BigBlueButton includes Asterisk so it can get
> confusing real fast.
> 
> ~
> Andrew "lathama" Latham
> lathama at gmail.com
> 
> * Learn more about OSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
> * Learn more about Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
> * Learn more about Tux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux
> 
have a look at the keynote from astricon this year where Kevin Fleming
said there is around 1 million servers running asterisk out there and
about 2,2 million downloads from asterisk.org this year.

btw its used in 169 countries of the world as digium can verify.

http://blogs.digium.com/2010/11/11/astricon-2010-keynote-the-future-of-open-source-communications/

best regards

stefan

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Andrew Latham <lathama at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/11/17 Sevana Oy <sales at sevana.fi>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Sorry for maybe not a very list related topic, but I have always
been
>>> curious if there is information on how many Asterisk based PBXs are
>>> operating Worldwide?
>>>
>>> Thanks and hope the community will not reject my curiosity! :)
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Vallu
>>> Sevana Oy
>>> --
>>
>> John Todd should have a good answer for this. ?I would start my
>> estimate at 200,000+ if you are including all of the versions and
>> types. ?Software like BigBlueButton includes Asterisk so it can get
>> confusing real fast.
>>
>
> How do you figure this number? I would suspect is a lot higher,
> especially if you consider just Digium sales in the equation.
>
Just to complement some links we may all find interesting in figuring this out

1) http://www.nojitter.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219401206

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Sevana Oy wrote:
> Sorry for maybe not a very list related topic, but I have always been 
> curious if there is information on how many Asterisk based PBXs are 
> operating Worldwide?
Counting any open source package is difficult for many reasons.

Getting a reasonably accurate count would not be that difficult, but 
everybody is so paranoid about anybody knowing anything about them and 
what they do.

Just to explore member's opinions, would you object to a 'curl'
request in
the script that starts Asterisk that sends your MAC address and Asterisk 
version number to Asterisk.org? Not tracking your IP address or any other 
identifying information, just the MAC and cheese.

Being Open Source, you can see exactly what is being sent and could always 
'opt-out.'

What 'competitive advantage' would someone have over you just knowing
that
Asterisk was started on a box owned by someone, somewhere?

Would you see it as a 'security issue?'

Some really useful information could be gathered and displayed like:

) 'Popularity' of different versions.

) Average time between restarts by version number.

) Ratio of starts to stops by version number. (The difference between 
starts and stops could be an indicator crashes.)

What other information would you be willing to share? TDM capacity? 
Maximum simultaneous call count?

If 'giving up' a little anonymous information was the 'cost' of
using
Asterisk, sign me up.

I'm curious how many Windows software packages 'phone home' either
without
permission or with the permission granted somewhere in the silly EULA that 
nobody reads.

Am I missing something really obvious?

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