[asterisk-ha-clustering] New HA setup

[Olle E. Johansson]

3 nov 2009 kl. 15.42 skrev Frederic Jean:

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> It all depends on your application. Running a SIP-PSTN gateway service
> for consumers is one thing, running a hosted PBX is completely
> different and requires a different setup.
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> It is actually for hosting several companies' PBXs on one platform,  
> this including
> voicemail, etc, and video in a near future.
Asterisk doesn't support "etc" :-)

The video support is really poor. You want to have another strategy  
and architecture for that. I don't see any work on improving video  
support in trunk, which means that if the community or Digium doesn't  
fund the needed work quickly, we'll end up with Asterisk 1.8 lacking  
good video support too. It doesn't feel good, since I had a branch  
with better video support, not perfect but much much better, prior to  
1.4 release.

Hosting multiple companies PBX's on one platform involves a lot of  
issues that affects the design. Are you going to allow customers to  
connect over manager? Are you going to deliver call parking, blinking  
lamps, call queues? Manager doesn't allow for filtering of events and  
doesn't offer good protection either.  There's a lot we can do in  
Asterisk to better support hosting. With the current development on  
virtualisation, a lot of companies end up running one Asterisk per  
customer for reasons like the ones I listed. The problem is that you  
end up having to manager one Asterisk per customer... Painful and  
costly.

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> I then might have been off track since the beginning, but hey,  
> that's why mailing lists exists  ; )
Yep!

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