On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:48 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > Well I am looking at purchasing 672 licenses. Digium gives a little > price break over 500 licenses, they only charge $8/each. Somehow I > would like to see how your model could possibly help my situation rather > than helping everyone else's. >
Well there are two options, one is you get your own server, and if you exhaust your licenses you get no slack. Due to the way that codecs are done in asterisk there is no way to tell if a license is avialable until the codec is chosen, and then without a codec being familiar with all channel types no way for it to say 'eeps go try another'. Idealy during the SDP in sip or whatever signalling protocol is used the check would be performed and codecs that arent really available not offered, but this hook doesnt (currently) exist and if it did would require all codecs upgraded to support it. So in short if you run your own server you would not be able to get extra licenses if you run out and the call would end up with 'dead air'. Only in the community model can you borrow licenses from someone else and thus get temporary extra licenses. We capped it at 10% to avoid people ordering 1 license and using 1000 all the time. This way we can more effectively manage the licenses without running out ourselves and having to buy more from sippro.com. We added the auto purchase option on the community based model for people that really want to ensure that calls dont fail should they exceed that 10% soft quota buffer. So you dont have to help others out if you dont want to. Its all about choice and freedom, you dont even have to choose our implementation, you have that much choice with us :) -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
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