[asterisk-users] Asterisk High-Capacity Stability

[Daryl Jurbala]

On May 14, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Zoa wrote:

>
> Several people do use it for handling > 50k minutes a day. (I'm one  
> of them).
> Yes, you need to know what you are doing, and have a nice design,  
> but it is possible.Our code is only slightly altered. (mainly for  
> billing purposes).

That's great if you're good enough/have the time to make that  
happen.  But when I have issues and call/pay Digium and don't get  
timely or meaningful answers, it's doesn't make for a good business  
decision to continue using it for that purpose when I can toss in a  
Nextone or Sansay and have it "just work".  All the time.  No  
babysitting.  Full professional and timely problem resolution from  
the vendor, etc, etc, etc.  Don't even get me started on Digium not  
being able to get TC400Bs to properly negotiate g.723.1 5.3k when a  
client requests 6.3k first (thank god for Cantata).

I guess it all comes down to whether you want things to just work and  
be able to have tier 1/2 support capable of actually doing anything  
meaningful, or if you want to have the engineering level people  
forced to do all the work.  From my standpoint, the smart business  
decision is quite clear.

But, as I said, Asterisk is still driving the feature servers, and  
works well for it.  As mentioned by someone else previously in the  
thread, it makes a great endpoint.

If you're having good success with it, that's fantastic.  I would  
hope that you contribute back to the list how you set things up to  
make this a possibility.