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

>> 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.
>
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Alistair Cunningham wrote:

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

Sorry. Way past my memory limits.

This may help:

http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=5829


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