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

[Alistair Cunningham]

On 08/08/11 15:37, Steve Edwards wrote:
> 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.

That's interesting. Do you know how many Asterisk machines he needed?

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