[Asterisk-Users] Over 10,000 lines. Will asterisk manage?

[Billy Huddleston]

> A SIP phone *could* normally send its media stream directly from phone to
> phone, if no transcoding is required, but when using Asterisk the media
> stream will always pass through the server, causing a pottential 
> bottleneck.
> So, why not use SER to register all the SIP phones, as it doesn't handle 
> the
> media-streams, just keeps track of the phones and does the 'handshake'.
> SER is supposed to be able to handle over 50.000 calls at a time, so one 
> SER
> server would be enough.
> Then interface this with one (or more) Asterisk servers to connect to the
> local PSTN.
> But maybe I'm missing something fundamental, in which case I'm happy to 
> learn.

Um, Wrong, You can do re-invites and have the media go point-to-point, We do 
it all the time.