----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:11
AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Some ignorance
here,what exactly is a Session Control Border? (Verizonis asking me about
this)
Hey everyone,
I am working with Verizon to
terminate SIP calls for me.
MY QUESTION: I notice the diagram shows only one asterisk server
(softswitch). Since asterisk is not very good at clustering (appearing
as one entity), I would have to have multiple servers (softswitches).
You mentioned "You will give us the IP addresses of your softswitch(es) and
that will allow communication between your network and ours." If I
gave you 3 IP addresses (to three asterisk softswitches), how would you hand
off the calls unless there was some policy defining which calls go to which
IPs.
THEIR RESPONSE: I only represented one softswitch, because many of
my previous customers only have one. Since you will have multiple
softswitches, do you plan on implementing a session border controller?
This would allow us to point the traffic to the SBC and thereby eliminating
the worry of trying to separate the traffic. Are all the Asterisks going
to be in the same location?
Soooo, what does she mean by a session border controller? As I
understand, * is the SBC right? If not, how would an SBC fit into the
picture with Asterisk?
-
Gabe
P.S. And yes, I
have thought about SER as a solution to this and have not yet given it a
try.
