[Asterisk-Dev] asterisk 'stable'?

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Jeremy McNamara wrote:

> Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> 
> >My opinion is that Asterisk, as it was originally designed, I.E. as a 
> >low-volume PBX replacement has done a fantastically stellar job of 
> >overchieving. Where it seems to be failing is where people are pushing it 
> >beyond the original intentions. Most asterisk implementations that I hear 
> >about are successful and stable. Granted most of those do not exceed 96 
> >channels on a PRI card, but for pete's sake.. if you want a 
> >true Softswitch, go buy a Sonus.
> >
> >Asterisk is a VERY stable PBX replacement and low volume Gateway / 
> >Application server. When you start to scale it much beyond that, you are 
> >exceeding it's original design implications. As such, you are most likely 
> >going to encounter situations that were never even dreamed of when the 
> >code was birthed. That is what people are starting to do now, and we're 
> >seeing where Asterisk falls over. This a natural part of any development 
> >cycle. The beauty of Open Source development is that the entire world can 
> >take part in it and appreciate the value of the software, warts and all.
> 
> Then please tell me how have we been able to scale Asterisk to deal with 
> over 10,000 users?

You have done it intelligently and worked around issues that you have 
found. Your design takes into account the limitations in the software and 
works around it. You have designed external interfaces that help you scale 
Asterisk to your level.

For example, the fact that you centralize all of your configuration 
information in a SQL backend and then periodically write out the 
text-files (at least as of our conversation in Atlanta). That pre-dates 
Real-Time.

I'd say that NuFone is the exception, however, rather than the rule. Joe 
Average user isn't at the technical level that your organization has.

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