Asterisk fault tolerance and a embedded hardware solution.....?? Has anyoone tried implement Asterisk as a hardware based solution similar to Soekris firewall....?
Asterisk & fault tolerance: I ran across this posting about Asterisk and here is some interesting thoughts to ponder http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=aca5dd1d9141c07addd9d3414e934380%40free.teranews.com&rnum=14 Not blow anyone's ASTERISK bubble BUT,,,,,,, "Show me an Asterisk system that can: 1) Have a communication bus that can survive the removal of the CPU, and still have calls in progress that remain active until the calling parties hang up. Difficult problem to solve. One would have to have some sort of parallel network connection. Perhaps one could have a buffering or cache solution. The CPU problem could be solved by a blade server or failover. 2) I have yet to hear of any Asterisk box running a fully redundant CPU configuration. I bet this is possible. Especially with the newer hot swap cPCI bus systems and slave CPU cards. Even better if the chassis has and embedded H.110, or equivalent in LAN/memory, switching bus. Yes could be solved. 3) A redundant configuration where either CPU can talk to the communications boards (T1/E1), and LAN interfaces. And which can address all boards in the system redundantly. Sounds like a job for Infiniband or a platform that has a switched crossbar architecture like IBM P-Series or Sun. 4) A redundant configuration that has either shared system memory between the CPU's, or at least table copies between memory that hold all static and dynamic call information. 5) A redundant configuration that can swap between system CPU's in less than 20 seconds. 6) A redundant configuration that can synchronize on, and share one, two , and more network clocking signals. Plus synchronize on a independent stratum 3 or greater clock source. 7) And can support 1,000 or more endpoints (TDM and/or IP) without choking on it's own guts. 8) A redundant configuration that can synchronize on, and share one, two , and more network clocking signals." Well it's a lot to ask, but enterprise computing demands a lot. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm _______________________________________________ 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
