trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: >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 :) > > > 1) Suppose I run my own license server. Can I simply have my asterisk servers constantly "leasing" N licenses for some time period like 60 minutes? The primary advantage I see here is that I don't have to be calling you to move licenses around. Maybe someday I double the memory on a server and want to then move some virtual PBX customers over from another server. Sounds to me like I can do that anytime any day of the week with your product as long as I have purchased enough licenses.
2) Will existing customers running a local license server be able to buy additional licenses via web portal 24/7? 3) Is the local license server highly dependent on a single server being available or are master/slave implementations being allowed? 4) If the data center with my sole license server is bombed, can I reinstall on another machine and load all the keys, etc. without calling or emailing you? 4) Is this strictly 729 suffix a or what? _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
