Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)]

On May 4, 2008 08:40:10 pm Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > > Customer's insistence.  We didn't have a choice, really.
> > Nothing wrong with that, it just adds more billable hours.  :-)
> As long as it does.

I don't know about you, but whenever a customer wants me to do work and does 
not want to follow my recommendations, I have the paper trail copied out in 
triplicate just to cover my ass.

Sometimes they're right, but generally when they ask me to do something they 
are asking me because they are unable to do it themselves, so I am 
extra-cautious when they won't follow my advice.

-A.


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Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[John covici]

How can you tell if a server will have enough power for such a card?
Most servers have power to spare.

on Sunday 05/04/2008 Jay R. Ashworth([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 01:42:22PM +1000, Rob Hillis wrote:
 > >Actually I can see exactly where this may be useful. I can think
 > >of at least one customer off the top of my head who has insisted
 > >on having a TDM2400 installed in a Dell server that we know
 > >can't provide enough power to the card where it's being used as
 > >a collection of FXS ports. Of course we've advised them of the
 > >limitation, but they completely ignored us. :) Something like this
 > >would have allowed us to provide a solution to a problem that is
 > >likely to come back and bite us in the future.
 > 
 > Advise the customer in writing; make them sign it.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > -- jra
 > -- 
 > Jay R. Ashworth   Baylink  [EMAIL 
 > PROTECTED]
 > Designer The Things I Think   RFC 
 > 2100
 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 
 > e24
 > St Petersburg FL USA  http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 
 > 1274
 > 
 >   Those who cast the vote decide nothing.
 >   Those who count the vote decide everything.
 > -- (Joseph Stalin)
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-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
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Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 01:42:22PM +1000, Rob Hillis wrote:
>Actually I can see exactly where this may be useful. I can think
>of at least one customer off the top of my head who has insisted
>on having a TDM2400 installed in a Dell server that we know
>can't provide enough power to the card where it's being used as
>a collection of FXS ports. Of course we've advised them of the
>limitation, but they completely ignored us. :) Something like this
>would have allowed us to provide a solution to a problem that is
>likely to come back and bite us in the future.

Advise the customer in writing; make them sign it.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth   Baylink  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Designer The Things I Think   RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA  http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274

 Those who cast the vote decide nothing.
 Those who count the vote decide everything.
   -- (Joseph Stalin)

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Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 07:48:40PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote:
> > Customer's insistence.  We didn't have a choice, really.
> 
> Nothing wrong with that, it just adds more billable hours.  :-)

As long as it does.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
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Designer The Things I Think   RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA  http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274

 Those who cast the vote decide nothing.
 Those who count the vote decide everything.
   -- (Joseph Stalin)

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Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)]

On May 4, 2008 07:24:45 pm Rob Hillis wrote:
> Customer's insistence.  We didn't have a choice, really.

Nothing wrong with that, it just adds more billable hours.  :-)

-A.

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Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[Rob Hillis]

Steve Totaro wrote:
>>  Actually I can see exactly where this may be useful.  I can think of at
>> least one customer off the top of my head who has insisted on having a
>> TDM2400 installed in a Dell server that we know can't provide enough power
>> to the card where it's being used as a collection of FXS ports.  Of course
>> we've advised them of the limitation, but they completely ignored us.  :)
>>
>>  Something like this would have allowed us to provide a solution to a
>> problem that is likely to come back and bite us in the future.
>> 
>
> I see your point in that circumstance, but I would have employed a
> channel bank, totally avoiding your inevitable future bite.
>   

Customer's insistence.  We didn't have a choice, really. 

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Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 220 million users in China

[vision_admin]

Thanks Matt!

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users -
now	220 million users in China
From: Matt Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, May 04, 2008 11:00 am
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
<[EMAIL PROTECTED].com>

What Godaddy.com has told you is more or less correct.

Its not their fault that Chinese visitors cannot hit your pages... the internet is China is highly censored, and quite often they firewall even very large big name sites like BBC news.  Typically they block sites that have any type discuss any type of political matters that might be going on in China, or blog sites where chinese citizens might "speak out".  I'm not saying your site is one of these, but if they are infact doing it by IP address, its perfectly possible that your site just happens to be hosted on the same IP (or even IP block) as a site they decided to firewall - or perhaps a site used to occupy the same address space as you and they just haven't noticed its no longer there and un-firewalled it.

And yes, godaddy.com cannot guarentee that if you change IP addresses that the new one will work... just like they can't guarentee that myself or any visitors to my home will be able to access your website from my internet connection... i could firewall IPs from my home just like the chinese government can firewall sites from all of their citizens.  There is a chance that changing IPs will make it work, but theres also a chance the new IP will be firewalled too...

Just google for "Great Firewall of China"

--
Matt


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Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:15 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 220 million users in China

The statistics you write of maybe true but there is a small downside to this.  Presently, our website can not be seen in China and we are hosted by Godaddy.com.  The explanation we receive more than three times is "China is blocking a number of IP addresses and there is nothing they can do!"  This is the kicker we work with a Federal Organization here in USA who is also hosting at Godaddy.com and their website can be seen.  The only difference is this ogranization is using a Class A static IP address.  Godaddy.com can not guarantee if changing to a static IP address this situation will change.  One more thing, Godaddy.com can be seen in China because their website is hosted on a separate corporate server.

This is not a gripe but a realty and we are a digium select reseller.  There is a consultant in China we work with and our website is translated in Mandarin.  If anyone has a proposed solution for this we would greatly appreciate the dialogue.

Regards,

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users -
now 220 million users in China
From: "Dean Collins" 
Date: Sat, May 03, 2008 11:27 am
To: .com>

China has surpassed the USA as the No. 1 nation in Internet users.

The number of Chinese on the Internet hit more than 220 million as of February.
http://mobileanalytics.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0




I wonder how Americans are going to handle this little turn of events.

What is really interesting in the rest of the article it discusses how the percentage of penetration for china is 17% of it's 1.3 Billion population versus 71% penetration of the USA's population of 304 million people.

So with China expected to increase another 13 million users this month alone (March 2008) to 233 million users how long before there are more people using the internet in China than the entire population of the USA (I'm guessing about 7 months so about the end of this year).

Does anyone in the Asterisk community have a good website for getting accurate voip minutes or some other field of reference for how successful voip penetration is in the respective countries? Would be interesting to see what countries are leading Voip implementation penetration regardless of whether it is Asterisk or Avaya etc etc.

I know everyone freaked when Trixbox was collecting stats but I think it would be great for someone to write a small ‘anonymous collection module’ that an Asterisk sys-admin could download and install on their asterisk server which uploaded the stats to a community website.

Even if it just collected number of new installations globally this would be a huge help to people selling asterisk to their customers who continually ask “I’ve heard about this Asterisk open source stuff 

[asterisk-users] Astricon?

[Dean Collins]

http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2008/05/put-a-fork-in-i.html

 

Any official feedback yet on Astricon?

 



Cheers,
Dean 

 

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Re: [asterisk-users] Dialplan, Extensions, etc. Worksheet

[Steve Totaro]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Roderick A. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone created a worksheet they can share for designing a dialplan,
>  extensions, voicemail, etc.
>
>  I'm making my way through the O'Reilly Book (dead tree version) and
>  finding it enlightening.  I have hacked at dialplans created by others
>  but never actually came up with a design for my own system.  It's sort
>  of a work in progress made of bits and pieces from all over.
>
>  Having a real plan would probably make things easier.
>
>
>  Rod
>  --

Rod,

You will be glad that you are taking the learning curve plunge down
the road.  No pain, no gain.

I can certainly say that I am glad I got into Asterisk way before
there was any real documentation or GUIs for that matter.  It forced
me to learn the real deal Asterisk through trial and error which is
invaluable if you plan on really getting into it.

Then again, if you want easy, use a GUI.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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[asterisk-users] Dialplan, Extensions, etc. Worksheet

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Has anyone created a worksheet they can share for designing a dialplan, 
extensions, voicemail, etc.

I'm making my way through the O'Reilly Book (dead tree version) and 
finding it enlightening.  I have hacked at dialplans created by others 
but never actually came up with a design for my own system.  It's sort 
of a work in progress made of bits and pieces from all over.

Having a real plan would probably make things easier.


Rod
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[asterisk-users] segmentation fault

[Rilawich Ango]

Segmentation fault occurs after executing the following cmd.
Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|35|Ttr)

Is it a bug and how to fix it?

Below is the core dump message converted by gdb.

#0  0x068be1ad in realtime_peer (newpeername=0x1b37844 "10.20.0.1", sin=0x0)
at chan_sip.c:2547
#1  0x068becb3 in find_peer (peer=0x1b37844 "10.20.0.1", sin=0x0, realtime=1)
at chan_sip.c:2676
#2  0x068c0d4b in create_addr (dialog=0x9fb05b8, opeer=0x1b37e24 "10.20.0.1")
at chan_sip.c:2902
#3  0x069022d1 in sip_request_call (type=0x1b38010 "SIP", format=256,
data=0x1b38b08, cause=0x1b38c08) at chan_sip.c:15992
#4  0x0808c50a in ast_request (type=0x1b38010 "SIP", format=256,
data=0x1b38b08, cause=0x1b38c08) at channel.c:2994
#5  0x00df6d91 in dial_exec_full (chan=0x9f91f20, data=0x1b3af38,
peerflags=0x1b38e04, continue_exec=0x0) at app_dial.c:1180
#6  0x00dfa3b6 in dial_exec (chan=0x9f91f20, data=0x1b3af38) at app_dial.c:1747
#7  0x080ce1ca in pbx_exec (c=0x9f91f20, app=0x9f37890, data=0x1b3af38)
at pbx.c:537
#8  0x080d1f3b in pbx_extension_helper (c=0x9f91f20, con=0x0,
context=0x9f92160 "internal-admin", exten=0x9f921b0 "104", priority=4,
label=0x0, callerid=0x9f727b8 "200", action=E_SPAWN) at pbx.c:1862
#9  0x080d3280 in ast_spawn_extension (c=0x9f91f20,
context=0x9f92160 "internal-admin", exten=0x9f921b0 "104", priority=4,
callerid=0x9f727b8 "200") at pbx.c:2317
#10 0x080d37ac in __ast_pbx_run (c=0x9f91f20) at pbx.c:2419
#11 0x080d45c8 in pbx_thread (data=0x9f91f20) at pbx.c:2634
#12 0x08117094 in dummy_start (data=0x9f70fe8) at utils.c:865
#13 0x0076b45b in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#14 0x00bf124e in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6

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Re: [asterisk-users] externnotify php script

[Philipp Kempgen]

Dovid B wrote:

> I am trying to create a PHP script that updates a database when ever I 
> receive a new message. Has anyone written such a script ? Also does anyone 
> know what variables are passed to the script and how I can access them ?

Here's what we use in Gemeinschaft. It won't work (out of the box)
as a standalone script but you can probably get the basic idea.
The args are context, mailbox, number of messages in INBOX.
Have fun!


---cut---
#!/usr/bin/php -q
http://www.amooma.de/
* Stefan Wintermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Philipp Kempgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Peter Kozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
* MA 02110-1301, USA.
\***/
define( 'GS_VALID', true );  /// this is a parent file

require_once( dirName(__FILE__) .'/../inc/conf.php' );
include_once( GS_DIR .'inc/db_connect.php' );
include_once( GS_DIR .'inc/log.php' );
include_once( GS_DIR .'inc/get-listen-to-ids.php' );

$context = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9\-_]/i', '', @$argv[1]);
$mailbox = preg_replace('/[^0-9]/', '',@$argv[2]);
$num_vms =   (int)trim(@$argv[3]);
# only messages in INBOX are counted

if ($context === '') {
gs_log(GS_LOG_WARNING, "Context arg missing.");
echo "Context arg missing.\n";
exit(1);
}
if ($mailbox === '') {
gs_log(GS_LOG_WARNING, "Mailbox arg missing.");
echo "Mailbox arg missing.\n";
exit(1);
}

//gs_log(GS_LOG_DEBUG, "vm-postexec: context $context, mailbox $mailbox, num 
$num_vms");
gs_log(GS_LOG_DEBUG, "Mailbox $mailbox: processing ...");


$path = '/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/'.$context.'/'.$mailbox.'/';
if (! @chDir( $path )) {
gs_log(GS_LOG_WARNING, "Could not chdir to \"$path\".");
echo "Could not chdir to \"$path\".\n";
exit(1);
}

$db = gs_db_master_connect();
if (! $db) {
gs_log(GS_LOG_WARNING, "Could not connect to database.");
echo "Could not connect to database.\n";
exit(1);
}

$use_trans = gs_get_conf('GS_DB_MASTER_TRANSACTIONS');

function _mbox_to_userid( $mailbox )
{
global $db;
$uid = (int)$db->executeGetOne( 'SELECT `_user_id` FROM 
`ast_sipfriends` WHERE `name`=\''. $db->escape($mailbox) .'\'' );
return ($uid > 0) ? $uid : null;
}

$our_host_id = (int)gs_get_listen_to_primary_id();
if (! $our_host_id) {
gs_log(GS_LOG_WARNING, "Could not get our primary host ID!");
echo "Could not get our primary host ID!\n";
exit(1);
}

$uniqueids = array();

$files = glob( '*/msg*.txt' );
foreach ($files as $filename) {
$tmp = explode('/', $filename, 3);

$info['fld' ] =  @$tmp[0];
$info['file'] = baseName(@$tmp[1],'.txt');

$tmp = @gs_file_get_contents( $filename );
$about = array();
preg_match_all('/^([a-z]+) *= *([^\n\r]*)/mS', $tmp, $m, 
PREG_SET_ORDER);
foreach ($m as $arr) {
$about[$arr[1]] = $arr[2];
}
/*
array
(
[origmailbox] => 2001
[context] => to-internal-users-self
[macrocontext] =>
[exten] => 2001
[priority] => 286
[callerchan] => SIP/555-0823e0f8
[callerid] => "Hans Test" <555>
[origdate] => Thu Aug 16 12:59:40 AM CEST 2007
[origtime] => 1187218780
[category] =>
[duration] => 7
)
*/

if (preg_match('/<([^>]+)/S', @$about['callerid'], $m))
$info['cidnum' ] = $m[1];
else
$info['cidnum' ] = '';

if (preg_match('/^([^<]*)/S', @$about['callerid'], $m))
$info['cidname'] = trim($m[1], ' "');
else
$info['cidname'] = '';

$uniqueid = array(
'mailbox'=>  $mailbox ,
'origtime'   => (int)@$about['origtime'  ],
'callerchan' =>  @$about['callerchan']
);
$uniqueids[] = $uniqueid;

# check if we already know this message by unique signature
# (mbox, origtime, callerchan)
#
if ($use_trans) $db->startTrans();
$rs = $db

[asterisk-users] externnotify php script

[Dovid B]

Hi List,
I am trying to create a PHP script that updates a database when ever I receive 
a new message. Has anyone written such a script ? Also does anyone know what 
variables are passed to the script and how I can access them ?

Thanks

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Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[Steve Totaro]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Rob Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Steve Totaro wrote:
>  Man that is an ugly hack, but I guess it may be required in some rare
> situation, I guess if the power supply of the server is already
> nearing it's rating.
>
> I would still go with a sata to molex connector and even a Y molex
> splitter if at all possible.
>
>
>  Actually I can see exactly where this may be useful.  I can think of at
> least one customer off the top of my head who has insisted on having a
> TDM2400 installed in a Dell server that we know can't provide enough power
> to the card where it's being used as a collection of FXS ports.  Of course
> we've advised them of the limitation, but they completely ignored us.  :)
>
>  Something like this would have allowed us to provide a solution to a
> problem that is likely to come back and bite us in the future.
>

I see your point in that circumstance, but I would have employed a
channel bank, totally avoiding your inevitable future bite.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 220 million users in China

[Steve Totaro]

A special I saw on TV recently about censorship on the internet and
the Chinese government had many younger users, speaking under
anonymity, saying that they all use some method of getting around the
blocks by using proxies or tunneling via SSH.  I think it is only the
first gen. computer user's that do not have that common knowledge.

They used Google results for "Falun Gong" both through the Government
filters and through a proxy as well as "Tienanmen Square"  The results
were, not surprisingly, very different.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Matt Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What Godaddy.com has told you is more or less correct.
>
>  Its not their fault that Chinese visitors cannot hit your pages... the 
> internet is China is highly censored, and quite often they firewall even very 
> large big name sites like BBC news.  Typically they block sites that have any 
> type discuss any type of political matters that might be going on in China, 
> or blog sites where chinese citizens might "speak out".  I'm not saying your 
> site is one of these, but if they are infact doing it by IP address, its 
> perfectly possible that your site just happens to be hosted on the same IP 
> (or even IP block) as a site they decided to firewall - or perhaps a site 
> used to occupy the same address space as you and they just haven't noticed 
> its no longer there and un-firewalled it.
>
>  And yes, godaddy.com cannot guarentee that if you change IP addresses that 
> the new one will work... just like they can't guarentee that myself or any 
> visitors to my home will be able to access your website from my internet 
> connection... i could firewall IPs from my home just like the chinese 
> government can firewall sites from all of their citizens.  There is a chance 
> that changing IPs will make it work, but theres also a chance the new IP will 
> be firewalled too...
>
>  Just google for "Great Firewall of China"
>
>  --
>  Matt

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Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 220 million users in China

[Matt Watson]

What Godaddy.com has told you is more or less correct.

Its not their fault that Chinese visitors cannot hit your pages... the internet 
is China is highly censored, and quite often they firewall even very large big 
name sites like BBC news.  Typically they block sites that have any type 
discuss any type of political matters that might be going on in China, or blog 
sites where chinese citizens might "speak out".  I'm not saying your site is 
one of these, but if they are infact doing it by IP address, its perfectly 
possible that your site just happens to be hosted on the same IP (or even IP 
block) as a site they decided to firewall - or perhaps a site used to occupy 
the same address space as you and they just haven't noticed its no longer there 
and un-firewalled it.

And yes, godaddy.com cannot guarentee that if you change IP addresses that the 
new one will work... just like they can't guarentee that myself or any visitors 
to my home will be able to access your website from my internet connection... i 
could firewall IPs from my home just like the chinese government can firewall 
sites from all of their citizens.  There is a chance that changing IPs will 
make it work, but theres also a chance the new IP will be firewalled too...

Just google for "Great Firewall of China"

--
Matt


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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 
220 million users in China

The statistics you write of maybe true but there is a small downside to this.  
Presently, our website can not be seen in China and we are hosted by 
Godaddy.com.  The explanation we receive more than three 
times is "China is blocking a number of IP addresses and there is nothing they 
can do!"  This is the kicker we work with a Federal Organization here in USA 
who is also hosting at Godaddy.com and their website can be 
seen.  The only difference is this ogranization is using a Class A static IP 
address.  Godaddy.com can not guarantee if changing to a 
static IP address this situation will change.  One more thing, 
Godaddy.com can be seen in China because their website is 
hosted on a separate corporate server.

This is not a gripe but a realty and we are a digium select reseller.  There is 
a consultant in China we work with and our website is translated in Mandarin.  
If anyone has a proposed solution for this we would greatly appreciate the 
dialogue.

Regards,

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users -
now 220 million users in China
From: "Dean Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, May 03, 2008 11:27 am
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED].com>

China has surpassed the USA as the No. 1 nation in Internet users.

The number of Chinese on the Internet hit more than 220 million as of February.
http://mobileanalytics.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0




I wonder how Americans are going to handle this little turn of events.

What is really interesting in the rest of the article it discusses how the 
percentage of penetration for china is 17% of it's 1.3 Billion population 
versus 71% penetration of the USA's population of 304 million people.

So with China expected to increase another 13 million users this month alone 
(March 2008) to 233 million users how long before there are more people using 
the internet in China than the entire population of the USA (I'm guessing about 
7 months so about the end of this year).

Does anyone in the Asterisk community have a good website for getting accurate 
voip minutes or some other field of reference for how successful voip 
penetration is in the respective countries? Would be interesting to see what 
countries are leading Voip implementation penetration regardless of whether it 
is Asterisk or Avaya etc etc.

I know everyone freaked when Trixbox was collecting stats but I think it would 
be great for someone to write a small ‘anonymous collection module’ that an 
Asterisk sys-admin could download and install on their asterisk server which 
uploaded the stats to a community website.

Even if it just collected number of new installations globally this would be a 
huge help to people selling asterisk to their customers who continually ask 
“I’ve heard about this Asterisk open source stuff but how many are there 
installed globally anyway?”




Regards,

Dean Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cognation Limited
+1-212-203-4357
+61-2-9016-4652 (Sydney indial)
P.S. In case you are wondering Australia has a piddling little 15m users but 
this is against a pop of only 20.5m so the Internet penetration i

Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 220 million users in China

[randulo]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:15 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> One more thing, Godaddy.com can be seen in China because their website is
> hosted on a separate corporate server.

And as it happens, they sell CN domain names. I think you need to
investigate a better hosting company. Unfortunately, one can not be
certain the Cinese govt won't change the blocks that are blocked.
Still, you could do some tests and check it out. I run a site on a
dedicated server that has pages in Traditional and Modern Chinese and
as far as we know, it is seen in China. We also have small site with a
Chinese version on a shared server.

You are welcome to contact me off list if you want to try a test.

/r

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Re: [asterisk-users] looking for trixbox manual in pdf

[Örn Arnarson]

This isn't the official manual, but it's quite good. Helped me out when I
started anyway.

http://dumbme.voipeye.com.au/trixbox/trixbox_without_tears.pdf

Best regards,
Örn

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Sam Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I have been trying to source a trixbox ce manual in pdf but if anybody can
> point me to the right direction then it would be good.
> Sam
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Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 220 million users in China

[vision_admin]

The statistics you write of maybe true but there is a small downside to this.  Presently, our website can not be seen in China and we are hosted by Godaddy.com.  The explanation we receive more than three times is "China is blocking a number of IP addresses and there is nothing they can do!"  This is the kicker we work with a Federal Organization here in USA who is also hosting at Godaddy.com and their website can be seen.  The only difference is this ogranization is using a Class A static IP address.  Godaddy.com can not guarantee if changing to a static IP address this situation will change.  One more thing, Godaddy.com can be seen in China because their website is hosted on a separate corporate server.  This is not a gripe but a realty and we are a digium select reseller.  There is a consultant in China we work with and our website is translated in Mandarin.  If anyone has a proposed solution for this we would greatly appreciate the dialogue.Regards,

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users -
now 220 million users in China
From: "Dean Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, May 03, 2008 11:27 am
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED].com>

  China has surpassed the USA as the No. 1 nation in Internet users.   The number of Chinese on the Internet hit more than 220 million as of February. http://mobileanalytics.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0         I wonder how Americans are going to handle this little turn of events.   What is really interesting in the rest of the article it discusses how the percentage of penetration for china is 17% of it's 1.3 Billion population versus 71% penetration of the USA's population of 304 million people.   So with China expected to increase another 13 million users this month alone (March 2008) to 233 million users how long before there are more people using the internet in China than the entire population of the USA (I'm guessing about 7 months so about the end of this year).   Does anyone in the Asterisk community have a good website for getting accurate voip minutes or some other field of reference for how successful voip penetration is in the respective countries? Would be interesting to see what countries are leading Voip implementation penetration regardless of whether it is Asterisk or Avaya etc etc.   I know everyone freaked when Trixbox was collecting stats but I think it would be great for someone to write a small ‘anonymous collection module’ that an Asterisk sys-admin could download and install on their asterisk server which uploaded the stats to a community website.   Even if it just collected number of new installations globally this would be a huge help to people selling asterisk to their customers who continually ask “I’ve heard about this Asterisk open source stuff but how many are there installed globally anyway?”       Regards,   Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognation Limited +1-212-203-4357 +61-2-9016-4652 (Sydney indial) P.S. In case you are wondering Australia has a piddling little 15m users but this is against a pop of only 20.5m so the Internet penetration is actually higher than the USA.___
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[asterisk-users] looking for trixbox manual in pdf

[Sam Tam]

I have been trying to source a trixbox ce manual in pdf but if anybody can
point me to the right direction then it would be good.
Sam


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Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk for larg

[Grey Man]

>  Can you some reasons for this? Would interest me a lot why SIP is better
>  in a large Enviroment. than IAX.

Because with IAX you cannot separate the signalling and media
resulting in a complex scalability problem.

With SIP you can deploy a SIP Proxy and level load calls across as
many Asterisk servers as you like. For fault tolerance you can add
another SIP Proxy or an IP load balancer in front of your SIP Proxy.
With IAX you can't do any  either of those (at least not easily, there
is no equivalnet of a stateless SIP Proxy with IAX) since every call's
signalling and media path is tied to each IAX server it passes
through. The only way to scale IAX is to get a bigger server.

Regards,

Greyman.

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Re: [asterisk-users] AGI asterisk high balance

[Grey Man]

If you've got anything but trivial AGI loads you should switch to
FastAGI and put your business logic on a separate server to your
Asterisk server. I use a deployment where a call could make up to 3
AGI requests per call before being put through (for things such as
looking up accountcode, checking account credit, setting PSTN
callerid). We monitor the time thw whole process takes and on average
it's less than 100ms on an Asteisk server that peaks at 200
simultaneous calls (400 bridged) and 3 to 5 call set ups per second.
The business logic processing the FastAGI   calls is C# and .net which
means Java would be able to handle it easily as well. The most likely
bottleneck under high load will be your database.

Regards,

Greyman.

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Re: [asterisk-users] AGI asterisk high balance

[Tobias Wolf]

Hi,

Matt Watson schrieb:
>
> There is really no reason why you cannot.
>
> Personally… I’d avoid using Java for AGI’s that you think are going to 
> receive heavy use… simply because the JVM adds a lot of overhead, and 
> possibly a very real performance impact from having the load the JVM 
> everytime.
>

I don't think that this reason is really valid, if using the right Java 
AGI framework.

e.g. Asterisk-Java (http://asterisk-java.org/) starts a server first and 
every call to an AGI is directed and handeld from this server. The 
server process can reside on the same host as the asterisk server, or on 
a seperate server.

Regards,

Tobias

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Re: [asterisk-users] AGI asterisk high balance

[chetherston miles]

Hey Matt,

What make me choice, or thinking in choose JAVA-AGI so far i know there is a
way of using with a container (jboss or something like that) so the requests
come as an servlet request.

Someone had this kind of env?

Thanks


On 5/3/08, Matt Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  There is really no reason why you cannot.
>
>
>
> Personally… I'd avoid using Java for AGI's that you think are going to
> receive heavy use… simply because the JVM adds a lot of overhead, and
> possibly a very real performance impact from having the load the JVM
> everytime.  Of course there is overhead as well if you do PHP instead, as
> the PHP interpreter has to load everytime… but that's probably pretty
> light-weight in comparison to the JVM.
>
>
>
> Of course you could compile your Java code to native binaries to work
> around that problem, but I have no experience doing that.
>
>
>
> Please keep in mind that I have not actually created or used any Java
> AGI's… really just my thoughts without any experience.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *chetherston miles
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 03, 2008 6:30 PM
> *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> *Subject:* [asterisk-users] AGI asterisk high balance
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Is there a problem to use AGI JAVA to write an AGI to billing calls and
> customer accounts?
>
>
>
> Anyone have experience with it could give me some tips?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk for larg

[Tobias Wolf]

Hi,
Steve Totaro schrieb:
> I would avoid IAX and use SIP if at all possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
Can you some reasons for this? Would interest me a lot why SIP is better 
in a large Enviroment. than IAX.

Kind regards,

Tobias

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