asterisk users - Oct 2011 - Asterisk in the Cloud with Diamonds

Hello Everyone,

I was hoping to get some your experiences regarding putting asterisk
on a cloud. A first
obvious limitation is the number of ports used by asterisk to transfer
voice packets. Was
there any work arounds for this? Please any ideas or concerns are
greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Nick from Totonto.

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 12:05:54PM -0400, Nick Khamis
wrote:
> I was hoping to get some your experiences regarding putting asterisk
> on a cloud. A first
> obvious limitation is the number of ports used by asterisk to transfer
> voice packets. 
So what obvious limitation am I missing? I always thought that cloud is
the new buzzword for hosted, I might be a little out of behind the times
it appears. Can you elaborate.

If you mean cloud as in Amazon/Rackspace, then my own trial experience only
showed I was right to be skeptical: not having full control over the
resources (servers), there might come a time when somebody else`s process is
taking priority over yours.  Which means unreliable voice quality, etc.

Clouds are great for things that can slow down once in a while, like web
servers, emails, etc.  Voice packets, not so much.

Mike

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> Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in the Cloud with Diamonds
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I was hoping to get some your experiences regarding putting asterisk
> on a cloud. A first
> obvious limitation is the number of ports used by asterisk to transfer
> voice packets. Was
> there any work arounds for this? Please any ideas or concerns are
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick from Totonto.
> 
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