Al, Randy, (and others): What Al calls "one very weak area" for Asterisk is IMHO a difference in market perceptions. Asterisk is positioned for CPE - PBX - Appliance market which needs feature-rich appeal and mass-market focus.
Using asterisk for "large scale" does not mean that I have used it as a large scale PBX. Indeed, the "FARM" approach that we will be discussing on Friday 23rd is for very-large scale deployments with a reduced-feature-set focus. Simply put, this is not on Digium'a program for broad market push. Rightfully, Digium is expecting it's distribution channels to push it CPE-PBX and mass market solutions. So it is up to the thousands of Asterisk consultants to be aware of these techniques and to serve the much smaller number of clients (mostly VoIP network operators) who need to deploy very large scale networks. Indeed, I am now working on a design now that supports 100,000+ simultaneous participants in an application specific deployment. In this scale of telephony application, the issues of IP bandwidth and PSTN carrier access points are much more difficult to manage than anything related to the Asterisk platform. If this is your interest, then drop in http://voipusersconference.org The context of the discussion is NON-COMMERCIAL. I have no product or service for sale. I am just discussing a different approach to using Asterisk. ..mike.. At 09:42 AM 5/16/2008, randulo wrote: >http://voipusersconference.org > >On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Al Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this is one very weak area for *. There is NO ANSWER. > >Hi, > >There have been a couple of threads on this subject this week, so I'd >remind everyone that next Friday's VoIP Users Conference is about >*large scale* asterisk: > >After many requests, we finally have someone to talk on large scale >implementation of VoIP systems with asterisk. Using a farm of Asterisk >and Digium cards, tens Of Thousands of simultaneous calls can be made >and Mike Trest has offered to take it all apart for us to look inside. > >More about Mike Trest: http://www.mike.trest.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >-- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > >asterisk-users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
