Hi, thanks for your answer. I suppose that both the STUN servers and ActiveMQ are there to give a better/more reliable service which is obviously a good idea.
>From trying to find out some more on the Internet I get the idea that CSTele >might have something to do with Circuit Switching. I am guessing that the >CSTele server establishes a virtual switching circuit to the queue server and >trunk server, possibly through a separate network card (servers 3,4 and 5 all >have an extra ethernet card without fixed IP address). Regards Binni -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] På vegne af Patrick Lists Sendt: 14. december 2011 13:45 Til: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Emne: Re: [asterisk-users] A few (simple?) questions On 14-12-11 10:18, Brynjolfur Thorvardsson wrote: > Hi all > > I've been saddled with recreating a running Asterisk PBX setup (with > Ruby on Rails). Due to some wrangling between my client and the > original developers I am not able to talk to the developers themselves > but have been given full SSH access to their servers! > > My questions are regarding their setup - they have functionality split > over several servers as follows (all running CentOS): > > Server1 MySQL > > Server2 Ruby on Rails + CSTele > > Server3 Asterisk 1.4.19 + STUN #1 > > Server4 Trunk (Asterisk 1.4.19) + STUN #2 > > Server5 Apache ActiveMQ > > The system offers PBX services to ~10 small firms and connects via a > SIP trunk to a Telecoms company. > > My questions are as follows: > > -STUN server - is it necessary (given that there are many free STUN > servers on the Internet), and why two? Why would you want to rely on a free stun server which can disappear anytime when offering commercial services? I would also deploy my own stun servers for paying customers. > -Why have a separate Asterisk server for the trunk? No idea. Maybe the question could be: why have two Asterisk servers? Perhaps for for redundancy/failover? > -Is the Apache Message Queue server necessary? No idea. I know BigBlueButton uses Apache MQ & Asterisk but I don't know the specifics. > -My info says that server 2 is running CSTele but I have been unable > to find a process or program that matches this (except for a comment > in a daemon, ast_ami_events.rb, running on Rails server). Can anybody > tell me what CSTele might be? No idea. Good luck! Regards, Patrick -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello 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 -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users