[Asterisk-Users] When/whether to use SER?

Jon Radon jonr800 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 16:27:13 MST 2006


High availability.  If you have multiple Asterisk systems, SER can really
make failover a lot less painful.

On 1/22/06, Leif Madsen <asterisk.leif.madsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I simply bring it down to this:
>
> Am I service provider? If yes, then I probably want to use SER for my
> registrations. If not (standalone PBX -- single company), SER may not
> be necessary.
>
> As for the media part of it, unless I'm delivering some sort of
> "service" or require to listen to the media for some reason
> (monitoring for example), then I direct the call through Asterisk,
> else, I direct media directly between end points and get out of the
> way.
>
> Of course, its never this simple, but I find thats a good way of
> thinking about whether you really need SER or not. I don't really
> think a single company (unless its got a LOOOOOOOT of SIP phones)
> probably really even needs SER.
>
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