[Asterisk-Users] asterisk or ser

[Yair Hakak]

hi,
 SER is less about the number of callers than it is about the number of
registered sip clients. Without NAT issues a pizza box server with SER can
essentially register an unlimited number of SIP clients.
With larger numbers of SIP clients i find SER handles them much better than
asterisk.

Now, i know this is unorthodox, but i route EVERY call through asterisk,
even calls between SER users, for a few reasons:
1. billing - asterisk is much better at keeping CDRs
2. call control - asterisk can stay in the media path if neccesary, SER
won't (by default, although you can use a b2bua), and for things like prepay
calling cards this is a neccesity.
3. significantly easier to use dialing logic.

on the down side, i still havent gotten my old setup with autocreatepeer=yes
in my sip.conf and rewritehostport in ser.cfg working on 1.2 - anyone have
any ideas about that?


hope this helps,

-yair


On 4/14/06, Xaji Gaid <mohamoud at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I noticed in few references that asterisk and ser and complementary.
> Meaning asterisk handles connections to PSTN and voicemail but SER is
> better for routing SIP traffic.
>
> Is anyone using just asterisk for production purpose. Meaning serving a
> high number of callers.
>
> Is it mandatory to use SER behind asterisk?
>
> your feedback would appreciated.
>
>
>
> -Gaid
>
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