[asterisk-biz] Spec advice

[Alex Balashov]

Well, as far as Asterisk goes, you won't get 1000+ concurrent callers or 
1000 MeetMe rooms on a single box.  That is just not really possible, 
especially given the intensity of the audio mixing required to make 
MeetMe rooms happen.  You would have to build your infrastructure in a 
distributed manner;  set up x amount of conferences on several machines 
that are each only capable of having y users, and have a proxy or 
something of the sort route the calls to the machines based on that 
information.  Or, have the conference rooms dynamically created 
according to need in a load-balanced manner.

I suppose it is also possible to bridge two conference bridges together, 
technically, by stimulating an Originate command that has a kickback to 
a MeetMe() cross-connect on the near end and the far end.  This would 
theoretically allow you to have distributed conferences in which the 
members are on multiple servers.  But I haven't tested how well this 
works / if it is desirable in any way whatsoever.

Commercial solutions - there are lots of them, but they are all rather 
expensive if you wish to install them out of the box, and on-premises, 
and are difficult to work with and customise.  If all you need is a 
conference bridge, you might want to consider purchasing it as a service 
from someone who already provides it on a very large scale, such as 
RainDance, etc., who I believe does it using TDM telephony gear.

mroberts1818 at gmail.com wrote:
> List,
> 
> I'm putting together a conf bridge solution and the main requirement is,
> 
> Must be scalable and out of the box be able to handle 1000 callers. 
> 
> Any advice on hardware and necessary bandwidth?
> 
> Obviously looking to use asterisk but if there are better suited solutions it would be appreciated. 
> 
> Thx,
> 
> - mike
> 
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