Re: [asterisk-users] Clustering Meetme over multiple boxes?

2008-03-31 Thread Gopal krishnan
Hi Matt,

  As you said, is this will work like this?

1. Student A will login in a conference room no 7789
2. Student B will login in a conference room no 7789
3. Student C will login in a conference room no 7789
4. Instructor for student A,B and C will login in a conference room no. 6689
5. When the instructor click a button the 7789 conference and 6689
conference will be merged in a listen mode

Am I correct? If I am wrong please correct me. Thanks

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Matt Florell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,

 I have actually done this both ways, with many small conferences and
 few large conferences.

 The best example of both is the voice_lab feature that is included
 with VICIDIAL(although not very well documented). What this feature
 does is it has students log into individual meetme rooms and then have
 an instructor dial into their own meetme room. When the students are
 all logged in and the instructor is ready the instructor clicks a
 button to initiate calls from all of the student meetme rooms to the
 instructor meetme room where they are in listen-only mode and the
 instructor speaks english phrases which the students then repeat in
 their own conference.

 The reason this is set up this way is to allow for supervisor
 monitoring of individual students as well as recording of each student
 individually as they hear and repeat the phrases.

 This application is in use in telemarketing schools in the Philippines
 to help students learn to better speak American English.

 I have tested this to 120 channels going into the instructor meetme
 room across 6 servers.

 Hope that helps,

 MATT---

 On 3/4/08, Tony Mountifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi Matt, thanks for your reply.
 
   In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 ,
 
  Matt Florell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
   
We have done this using IAX trunks between Asterisk servers to
 connect
a PRI line on server A with a meetme room on server B. We have had
hundreds of participants in meetme rooms across a dozen Asterisk
servers using this method.
   
Not knowing your setup I'm not sure if this would work easily for
 you,
but this is a somewhat-easy, scalable method for expanding meetme
capacity.
 
 
  Is it correct to understand that in your setup, a given conference only
   ever exists on a single server (presumably the one used by the first
   caller), and that calls arriving on a different server are proxied
   individually to whichever server is hosting the requested conference?
 
   I can see that this would be quite easy, and would work well for lots
   of smallish conferences, but might be a bit heavy for a system running
   a small number of huge conferences. In the latter case, I want to look
   at having a local conference on each box and bridging the conferences
   together. This is the bit that gets complicated for making conf-wide
   decisions :-)
 
   Cheers
 
  Tony
 
 
MATT---
   
On 3/4/08, Tony Mountifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Has anyone here done any work on clustering Meetme conferences over
  multiple Asterisk boxes? The scenario I am thinking of is where
 there are
  two or more boxes connected to a set of PRIs that all answer to
 the same
  PSTN number, and where it's not possible to know in advance on
 which box
  a call would arrive. So it would be possible to have some calls on
 one
  box and some on another, that should all be conferenced together,
 by
  somehow linking matching Meetme conferences on both/all boxes.

  Particular complications I can envisage are the handling of marked
 users
  (A, w and x options), call recording (r option), and MeetmeAdmin
  operations such as mute all and unmute all.

  Cheers
  Tony
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[asterisk-users] Clustering Meetme over multiple boxes?

2008-03-04 Thread Tony Mountifield
Has anyone here done any work on clustering Meetme conferences over
multiple Asterisk boxes? The scenario I am thinking of is where there are
two or more boxes connected to a set of PRIs that all answer to the same
PSTN number, and where it's not possible to know in advance on which box
a call would arrive. So it would be possible to have some calls on one
box and some on another, that should all be conferenced together, by
somehow linking matching Meetme conferences on both/all boxes.

Particular complications I can envisage are the handling of marked users
(A, w and x options), call recording (r option), and MeetmeAdmin
operations such as mute all and unmute all.

Cheers
Tony
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Re: [asterisk-users] Clustering Meetme over multiple boxes?

2008-03-04 Thread Matt Florell
Hello,

We have done this using IAX trunks between Asterisk servers to connect
a PRI line on server A with a meetme room on server B. We have had
hundreds of participants in meetme rooms across a dozen Asterisk
servers using this method.

Not knowing your setup I'm not sure if this would work easily for you,
but this is a somewhat-easy, scalable method for expanding meetme
capacity.

MATT---

On 3/4/08, Tony Mountifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Has anyone here done any work on clustering Meetme conferences over
  multiple Asterisk boxes? The scenario I am thinking of is where there are
  two or more boxes connected to a set of PRIs that all answer to the same
  PSTN number, and where it's not possible to know in advance on which box
  a call would arrive. So it would be possible to have some calls on one
  box and some on another, that should all be conferenced together, by
  somehow linking matching Meetme conferences on both/all boxes.

  Particular complications I can envisage are the handling of marked users
  (A, w and x options), call recording (r option), and MeetmeAdmin
  operations such as mute all and unmute all.

  Cheers
  Tony
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Re: [asterisk-users] Clustering Meetme over multiple boxes?

2008-03-04 Thread Tony Mountifield
Hi Matt, thanks for your reply.

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Matt Florell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello,
 
 We have done this using IAX trunks between Asterisk servers to connect
 a PRI line on server A with a meetme room on server B. We have had
 hundreds of participants in meetme rooms across a dozen Asterisk
 servers using this method.
 
 Not knowing your setup I'm not sure if this would work easily for you,
 but this is a somewhat-easy, scalable method for expanding meetme
 capacity.

Is it correct to understand that in your setup, a given conference only
ever exists on a single server (presumably the one used by the first
caller), and that calls arriving on a different server are proxied
individually to whichever server is hosting the requested conference?

I can see that this would be quite easy, and would work well for lots
of smallish conferences, but might be a bit heavy for a system running
a small number of huge conferences. In the latter case, I want to look
at having a local conference on each box and bridging the conferences
together. This is the bit that gets complicated for making conf-wide
decisions :-)

Cheers
Tony

 MATT---
 
 On 3/4/08, Tony Mountifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Has anyone here done any work on clustering Meetme conferences over
   multiple Asterisk boxes? The scenario I am thinking of is where there are
   two or more boxes connected to a set of PRIs that all answer to the same
   PSTN number, and where it's not possible to know in advance on which box
   a call would arrive. So it would be possible to have some calls on one
   box and some on another, that should all be conferenced together, by
   somehow linking matching Meetme conferences on both/all boxes.
 
   Particular complications I can envisage are the handling of marked users
   (A, w and x options), call recording (r option), and MeetmeAdmin
   operations such as mute all and unmute all.
 
   Cheers
   Tony
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Re: [asterisk-users] Clustering Meetme over multiple boxes?

2008-03-04 Thread Matt Florell
Hello,

I have actually done this both ways, with many small conferences and
few large conferences.

The best example of both is the voice_lab feature that is included
with VICIDIAL(although not very well documented). What this feature
does is it has students log into individual meetme rooms and then have
an instructor dial into their own meetme room. When the students are
all logged in and the instructor is ready the instructor clicks a
button to initiate calls from all of the student meetme rooms to the
instructor meetme room where they are in listen-only mode and the
instructor speaks english phrases which the students then repeat in
their own conference.

The reason this is set up this way is to allow for supervisor
monitoring of individual students as well as recording of each student
individually as they hear and repeat the phrases.

This application is in use in telemarketing schools in the Philippines
to help students learn to better speak American English.

I have tested this to 120 channels going into the instructor meetme
room across 6 servers.

Hope that helps,

MATT---

On 3/4/08, Tony Mountifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi Matt, thanks for your reply.

  In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],

 Matt Florell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Hello,
  
   We have done this using IAX trunks between Asterisk servers to connect
   a PRI line on server A with a meetme room on server B. We have had
   hundreds of participants in meetme rooms across a dozen Asterisk
   servers using this method.
  
   Not knowing your setup I'm not sure if this would work easily for you,
   but this is a somewhat-easy, scalable method for expanding meetme
   capacity.


 Is it correct to understand that in your setup, a given conference only
  ever exists on a single server (presumably the one used by the first
  caller), and that calls arriving on a different server are proxied
  individually to whichever server is hosting the requested conference?

  I can see that this would be quite easy, and would work well for lots
  of smallish conferences, but might be a bit heavy for a system running
  a small number of huge conferences. In the latter case, I want to look
  at having a local conference on each box and bridging the conferences
  together. This is the bit that gets complicated for making conf-wide
  decisions :-)

  Cheers

 Tony


   MATT---
  
   On 3/4/08, Tony Mountifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone here done any work on clustering Meetme conferences over
 multiple Asterisk boxes? The scenario I am thinking of is where there 
 are
 two or more boxes connected to a set of PRIs that all answer to the same
 PSTN number, and where it's not possible to know in advance on which box
 a call would arrive. So it would be possible to have some calls on one
 box and some on another, that should all be conferenced together, by
 somehow linking matching Meetme conferences on both/all boxes.
   
 Particular complications I can envisage are the handling of marked users
 (A, w and x options), call recording (r option), and MeetmeAdmin
 operations such as mute all and unmute all.
   
 Cheers
 Tony
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