Well, I like the features asterisk gives me such as voicemail and IVR, Prompts, etc. I would like to offer an IP Centrex like service, but don't believe that I can handle very large amounts of users on a box. The reason I believe this is that the box would be doing all the media processing/DSP work on the processor and would be bound by the speed and memory of the box as to how many simultaneous sessions it could manage. A gateway has DSP's which are designed to handle this processing. I know they are more expensive, but I could handle large amounts of call volume this way and still keep the features asterisk offers.
Another question I also meant to ask was having the ability to read extensions from a database instead of a .conf file. I was curious if anyone has asterisk pulling configs from a database like mysql. Todd -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Todd Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is it possible to push the media processing off to a gateway for processing? >I was wondering if it is possible to have Asterisk push the media processing >off to something with DSP's such as a gateway? That way, asterisk just has >to handle the call setups and tear downs. > >Todd Wallace You mean, like what SIP does by default? This is an incomplete question. Please be more specific. If I have a "gateway", and I have SIP calls coming in from desktop SIP UA's (hardphones or softphones) then Asterisk can simply re-direct those calls to the gateway. Of course, Asterisk _is_ a gateway, so unless you have specific reasons for doing so, it would make more sense to use Asterisk to tackle those jobs with generic, cheap processing horsepower rather than expensive, proprietary DSP's. If you're just getting Asterisk to handle call setups and teardowns, why not just use a real SIP proxy for that? Or do you not know enough about your question to understand why I would differentiate between the two? (not being nasty here, just wondering if I need to explain more) JT _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
