[asterisk-biz] Largest conference you've seen on Asterisk?

[Steve Edwards]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Alistair Cunningham wrote:

> I'm interested in examples of large conferences implemented on Asterisk, 
> where almost all of the users are listen-only. For example, 500 
> listeners and 3 talkers.
>
> What's the largest you've seen? Was that in production, in a test 
> environment, or hypothetical? Was it on a single Asterisk machine or 
> multiple?

A couple of years ago, a guy described (on the user list?) a conference 
system he built with 6,000 participants.

As I remember, it was for NASCAR fans to listen in to the drivers during 
the race. Callers could choose which driver (by car number?).

He described the system as a tree. The top level had the original feeds. 
Each level below was hosts connected as a participant in the upstream 
host's conference until he had enough levels to have enough hosts to 
handle 6,000 callers.

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