[asterisk-users] Asterisk Load balancing

[James Jones]

jk wrote:

> Hello,
> we are building an asterisk cluster. Here is what we are trying.
>
> Four Asterisk Servers
> AT1, AT2, AT3, AT4.
>
> Two service providers (SIP accounts). One for call origination (CO) and
> one for call termination. (CT)
> 1. Say some one dials a number 18xx xxx xxxx, CO forwards the call to
> our asterisk server, and the call goes to IVR, user select the option
> and call go to agent.
> 2. User wants to call out side, Asterisk server use CT trunk and
> terminate the call to the origination.
>
> Now my concern is that only one Asterisk can register with CO and CT at
> one time. Right?
>
> I want to do the load balancing so that OC server send call to one of
> the Asterisk server based on the load.
>
> How the user registered on AT1 can make call if AT4 is registered at CT.
> I have heard about Dundi and SER, but I am not if that is the right way
> to go. I get the idea how a user can register at different servers. But
> I am not getting how a CO knows where to send the call.
> Can anyone give me some lead to get around this load balancing issue?
>
> Thank you,
> -JK
>
>
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You are going to need to a gateway of some sort. that handles the 
registers and then will accept a call from the cluster then send it out 
the ITSP that you are registered to.