[asterisk-dev] HW requirements for a big conference server

[Geoffrey Mina]

Russel- I was unaware of the difference in architecture when using TDM
only and meetme.  What you say makes perfect sense.

On 7/11/09, Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
> Geoffrey Mina wrote:
>> I think you are not going to get MeetMe to work reliably with 200
>> concurrent users.  There are some elements of the MeetMe architecture
>> which don't allow it to scale very well.  Conference (app_conference)
>> could probably handle 200 users on your current hardware.  It doesn't
>> have all the bells and whistles of MeetMe, but it does the core job of
>> conferencing lots of users very well.
>
> I have never personally tested a conference that big, so I can't speak
> directly to the original question.  However, this post doesn't really
> make sense to me.
>
> The original poster is wanting to conference _all_ TDM channels.  MeetMe
> works by conferencing in DAHDI.  This means that the audio doesn't come
> up to Asterisk at all in this scenario.  Why would app_conference, which
> mixes inside of Asterisk, and would require 200 calls worth of audio to
> be passed up to Asterisk to do it, scale much better that leaving the
> conference down in DAHDI?  If app_conference does raw mixing that much
> more efficient than we do it in DAHDI, it would be nice to know so that
> we can improve it.
>
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