[Asterisk-biz] Large Asterisk Setup (~500 Concurrent Calls +Scalability)

[Dana Olson]

On 4/20/05, Leandro Tenorio <leandro_tenorio at ciudad.com.ar> wrote:
>        I'm sure that most of the Asterisk users in the list will not agree
> we me, but in such large implementations, I prefeer to use a quite different
> approach.
>        In this kind of implementations I prefeer to use any TDM-VoIP
> gateway (Quintum / Cisco / etc, there are a lot of them, even used equipment
> for less than $6k, new ones cost like $12k with 4T1s/E1s) and then use
> asterisk for extentions and all the services you want to provide.
>        why, It's far more stable, easy to configure/maintain, and less pof
> in a specific designed equipment than a server.
>        I also suggest you to put two asterisk servers for services, user
> registration, etc.
> 
> LTenorio


What is the advantage to using Asterisk over SER if you're using a
dedicated gateway device?