Oh, and I see nufone caters to residential. We only cater to business
customers, who's needs are a lot more demanding.
And you know what, maybe it won't scale, but the native dial plan couldn't
handle the requirements at all. If central management (ie web site) is a
requirement, then you have to use a database. As I said in my earlier post, the
MySQL dial plan command couldn't handle nested queries.We can't be pushing
confg files down to Asterisk and doing multiple reloads several times a minute
just because Joe Smith wanted to findme/followme to his cellphone after his
office phone, while Mart Bloggs is wanting to hange her external caller id.
We can upgrade the python agi script to a client-server based fast agi later
on. Right now I'm the only person working on this stuff and I only have one
pair of arms.
Doug.
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Garstang
Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 9:58 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion; Asterisk
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Cc:
Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'
You think 3 contexts, serving hundreds of companies is going to handle
internal cid, external cid, cid override, pic codes, rate centers, incoming and
outgoing black lists and white lists, findme/follow me with caller id based
routing, transferring and forwarding between multiple hosts in a cluster....
and so on while ALSO letting customers maintain all this via a web interface?
Even the MySQL dial plan command couldn't handle the findme/followme
because it couldn't save the state of the query used to retrieve the next
number from the findme/followme list and then perform further nested queries to
do blacklist/white list, pic code lookups, rate center lookups on each number.
We have several layers of organisationl units, and when person A calls
person B, and both are in the same company, we use an internal cid. If person A
and person B are in different companies, we use an external cid, and if the
caller uses a star code, we use an external cid. We had to get the only Gold
Rated MySQL consultants to help us design this damn thing. That's just a taste
of the complexity.
Now, let the customer manage all this via a web interface and THREE
contexts in a flat file isn't quite going to handle it. I also find your
assumption that I'm an idiot pretty offensive.
Doug.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy McNamara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 5:32 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Cc:
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'
Douglas Garstang wrote:
We have a 2000+ line python script that handles all call
routing logic.
You expect that to scale?
I do call routing in 3 contexts with ~maybe~ a dozen extension
each -
and we have many thousands of customers and more than hundreds
of
companies using our Asterisk systems as a hosted solution.
I really think you need to totally re-think your operation -
and no, I'm
not going to explain it to you, so don't even ask.
Jeremy McNamara
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