[Asterisk-Users] OPENSER / SER and Asterisk

BILL GITONGA bgitonga at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 13 18:14:05 MST 2006


Asterisk does to scale well. Use OpenSER or SER as a
front end to asterisk. Make all the sip traffic go
through ser and only go to Asterisk for voicemail, IVR
i.e media stuff. If you connect to the PSTN using sip,
then SER would be used for routing all PSTN calls.

--- Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com> wrote:

> While reading about how to maximize capabilities in
> asterisk i have
> read about SER and OpenSER.
> 
> The sites do not explain to newbies (maybe that's on
> purpose) what are
> the benefits of using those products tied with
> asterisk (or is SER an
> asterisk replacement??)
> 
> Can someone give me an idea of what's the usage for
> open(ser) and asterisk?
> is it for scalability?
> should I run it in the same box as asterisk or
> separated?
> does it add more functions to asterisk?
> or is the main function to better handle SIP over
> firewalls (due to
> SIP over TCP support)?
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> 
> 
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