[Asterisk-biz] voip termination deployment models

[Juan Lestoni]

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> With regard to MGC, it is also a big question whether Asterisk is
> appropriate. Keep in mind, Asterisk SIP stack wasn't designed to be a
> proxy, it is still a B2BUA at heart. (Recent SIPP work notwithstanding).
>
> With SIPP, you can sort of use Asterisk as a MGC/proxy, but ser has
> performance an order of magnitude higher (of course, ser doesn't have as
> many features as Asterisk).
>
> Asterisk really shines as a feature server, and that's I think where it
> belongs at this point.
>
> Our architecture is TNT's and AS53xx as MG, ser as MGC, Asterisk as a
> voicemail/other feature server.
>
> -alex

Regarding SER vs. Asterisk as SIP server, when it comes to manage NAT with
SER + rtpproxy, is SER still in an order of magnitude above Asterisk, or
have
both the same performance in number of concurrent calls ?

Juan