the solution lies in kamailio/opensips's despatcher module. Sent from my iPhone
On 23 maj 2012, at 20:46, bilal ghayyad <bilmar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear; > > So it is a hardware issue and not software? > I am afraid that asterisk software it self is not able to support 20 000 > users and 2000 concurrent calls. > > About the high availability: is there a method that if the first asterisk > server down, then the call will stay connected and failover to second > asterisk server? > > Regards > Bilal > > -------------- >> >> 20.000 users is really a big number, as big as 2000 >> concurrent calls. >> As previously stated on this list, it depends... it depends >> by the type of >> calls for example. If all media is offloaded from the server >> letting the >> phones to reinvite each other, than your server CAN support >> the call >> volume. If instead even a tiny portion of the call volume >> uses service on >> the pbx, like IVR, music on hold, conferences, queues or >> even worst, >> transcoding, then the server is obviously underpowered. From >> my point of >> view, servicing 20.000 users with a single piece of hardware >> is highly >> risky. It can broke in the middle of the day, leaving all >> your users >> without service. I think a better approach will be to have >> more less >> powered servers working all together to serving your users. >> If a day one or >> two of them broke, you have not to worry because the other >> will continue to >> serve your users and nobody notice the little decrease in >> power. >> There are a lots of way to achieve the high availability, >> load sharing, >> each with its pros and cons. >> Right now I am building a pbx with high availability and >> load sharing in >> mind, for a client who wants to achieve numbers you have >> just said. Let's >> see how it works in few months. >> >> Leandro >> >> 2012/5/23 bilal ghayyad <bilmar...@yahoo.com> >> >>> Hi All; >>> >>> I need to use Asterisk for 20 000 users, so which >> asterisk version to be >>> used? Is there asterisk version that supports 20,000 >> users on one hardware >>> machine? >>> >>> Can I use one strong hardware server i7 with 64 GB RAM >> and fast hard desk >>> to handle 20 000 users, and concurrent calls 2000? Or I >> need multiple >>> servers, how much? >>> >>> If I am going to use multiple servers (until now I do >> not know how much, >>> and I do not know if the barrier will be the asterisk >> software or the >>> hardware), then do I have to use special SIP proxy or I >> have to use load >>> balancer)? In this case, I have to use asterisk >> Database (so all the >>> servers will read/write from the database)? >>> >>> What about AsteriskNow, can it support? >>> >>> Regards >>> Bilal > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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
