I fail to see what worries you if all is fine and dandy in paradise. Don't mind us, we are just a bunch of loonies with weird ideas anyway.
On Friday 14 November 2008, Henning Westerholt wrote: > Hello all, > > recently some statement came to my attention that "there is a common > consent that the current design/architecture of [..] OpenSER (inherited > from SER) is no longer able to deliver and to meet the present > requirements and demands". > > I don't want to argue that much about this opinion, in fact the demands > to a Voice over IP solution depends very much on the certain setup. But > i want to share some details from my experiences in developing and > operating a big VoIP infrastructure here at 1&1. > > We've about 2 million customers on our platform, that uses over 5 > million individual numbers and terminate about 1 billion minutes per > month. We're able to provide a good service with the actual > architecture of OpenSER without any real problems. Of course there is > always some room for improvements, but so far the main challenges we > faced were not in the scalability or performance areas. More important > issues are e.g. the inherent complexity of the SIP protocol and the > maintainance of a good quality assurance and integration process. > > We started some years ago with OpenSER 0.9.5, which we then extended a > lot in house. For example we implemented more than 25 own modules, a > own path implementation, did a lot of bug fixing and workarounds for > certain problems we've found. We're able to reduce this amount of > proprietary code a lot in the past, because of progress in the OpenSER > development, intregration of our "key" modules and a lot of other > contributions. We're using now something between OpenSER 1.3 and > Kamailio 1.4 with only a few private extensions. > > So in my opinion the actual design of our server is not "[..] an > inevitable dead-end that needs to be avoided.". I rather think that > we'll be able with continuing improvements to tackle the upcoming > challenges well, especially as we will work together in the future with > the SER developers in improving important areas of this software. > > But this is just my personal opinion, everybody is of course free to > have their own position. > > With best regards, > > Henning Westerholt -- Dan _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
