asterisk users - Jan 2014 - Asterisk as a media gateway

I'm playing around in a lab, and I was wondering if its possible to have
Asterisk act similar to that of a Avaya PBX, where we have media gateways do the
heavy lifting.

This is what I was thinking of trying.

1.  One asterisk server will contain the logic of the phone system (ex: queues,
extensions...etc).

2.  The mains server will not handle RTP traffic,  it will send the RTP traffic
to another system (another asterisk box?) for processing.

At the end of the day, what I am hoping for is to have 1 brain, and mutiple work
horse audio gateways that can be added and removed as needed.

Has this been done?  Can anyone point me to some documentation on how others
have done this?

It's always fun to play


Richard Seguin.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:27 AM,  <richard.seguin at marisec.ca>
wrote:
> I'm playing around in a lab, and I was wondering if its possible to
have Asterisk act similar to that of a Avaya PBX, where we have media gateways
do the heavy lifting.
>
> This is what I was thinking of trying.
>
> 1.  One asterisk server will contain the logic of the phone system (ex:
queues, extensions...etc).
>
> 2.  The mains server will not handle RTP traffic,  it will send the RTP
traffic to another system (another asterisk box?) for processing.
>
> At the end of the day, what I am hoping for is to have 1 brain, and mutiple
work horse audio gateways that can be added and removed as needed.
>
> Has this been done?  Can anyone point me to some documentation on how
others have done this?
>
> It's always fun to play
>
Yes, this is basically functionality for Asterisk. If you are using
SIP, you want to REINVITE media away from your core Asterisk box.  I
suggest picking up the book[1] and reading the chapter on connecting
multiple Asterisk boxes together.

[1] http://www.asteriskdocs.org/

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