VisionVoIP
2011-Oct-17 23:48 UTC
[asterisk-users] Conference solution to handle 10, 000 participants - possible at all?
Hello list, A client is asking to setup an asterisk based conferencing solution which could handle 10,000 participants (in one single conference or combined in multiple conferences), and later could be scaled to handle up to 50,000 participants. All callers will be over SIP, using g711. I have designed and implemented MeetMe based conferencing solutions before but nowhere near to this scale. Is it possible to do this at all using Asterisk? If yes, wow, but how? Even a powerful server will only handle up to a 1000 concurrent g711 calls, maybe a few hundred more. Going beyond that will require scaling to another server. But since MeetMe will be running on the first server, how will users from the second server join it? Any ideas, suggestions and experience to share? -- Zeeshan A Zakaria PBX - visionvoip.com Blog - ilovetovoip.com
Steve Edwards
2011-Oct-18 01:08 UTC
[asterisk-users] Conference solution to handle 10, 000 participants - possible at all?
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, VisionVoIP wrote:> A client is asking to setup an asterisk based conferencing solution > which could handle 10,000 participants (in one single conference or > combined in multiple conferences), and later could be scaled to handle > up to 50,000 participants. All callers will be over SIP, using g711.If you scour the archives, you'll find discussion about this kind of thing several years ago, and then again sometime in the last 6 months. Googling about a bit should also yield relevant references. The OP built a system where NASCAR fans could call into conferences and listen to the cockpit chatter of the car of their choice. His system handled around 6,000 callers, but could be scaled higher. Think of a tree where 1 system hosts the conference. All 'callers' to this host are the next level of Asterisk systems. Add additional layers to build out to the number of real callers you want on an individual server. -- Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Edwards sedwards at sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000