Thanks Carlos, it is good to hear from one who is in a similar business. Are you getting use of ARA too in similar hosted PBX offerings?
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Carlos Alvarez <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Kannan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2. Multi-tenant PBX: Configuring multiple PBXs within the same instance >> of Asterisk. I.e. partitioning a single instance of Asterisk into multiple >> PBXs by way of configurations, using unique landing context for each tenant. >> 3. Virtual PBX: Multiple virtual machines within the same hardware, each >> host an instance of Asterisk. >> > > We use number two. We dabbled with number three but didn't like the > results for a lot of different reasons. As others have mentioned, there is > a certain level of danger when you mix companies so closely. We have in > the past made a mistake and brought down the whole system, but it's been > many years since we've done that. Part is improved skill and part is that > Asterisk has improved and no longer commits suicide for certain minor > errors. > > To do this, you need to plan out a good naming convention for everything > that will be unique to customers accounts. SIP accounts, macros, contexts, > etc etc. We use the accountcode feature and prepend the accountcode > through the dial plan and accounts. > > accountcode.301 would be a SIP account > > accountcode#function would be a context name > > We do deploy custom hardware for specific functions or customers who are > particularly large in some cases. We just need a good reason to. Like > they want to self-manage, or they make a lot of changes, need custom > integration with databases, etc. > > -- > Carlos Alvarez > TelEvolve > 602-889-3003 > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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 >
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