[asterisk-users] Asterisk concurrent calls count

[Mike Trest - On Travel]

Al, Randy, (and others):

What Al calls "one very weak area" for Asterisk is IMHO a difference 
in market perceptions.
Asterisk is positioned for CPE - PBX - Appliance market which needs 
feature-rich appeal
and mass-market focus.

Using asterisk for "large scale" does not mean that I have used it as 
a large scale PBX.
Indeed, the "FARM" approach that we will be discussing on Friday 23rd 
is for very-large
scale deployments with a reduced-feature-set focus.

Simply put, this is not on Digium'a program for broad market 
push.  Rightfully, Digium is
expecting it's distribution channels to push it  CPE-PBX and mass 
market solutions.

So it is up to the thousands of Asterisk consultants to be aware of 
these techniques
and to serve the much smaller number of clients (mostly VoIP network 
operators)
who need to deploy very large scale networks.

Indeed,  I am now working on a design now that supports 100,000+ 
simultaneous participants
in an application specific deployment.   In this scale of telephony 
application, the issues of
IP bandwidth and PSTN carrier access points are much more difficult 
to manage than anything
related to the Asterisk platform.

If this is your interest, then drop in 
http://voipusersconference.org     The context of the discussion
is NON-COMMERCIAL. I have no product or service for sale.  I am just 
discussing a different approach
to using Asterisk.

..mike..




At 09:42 AM 5/16/2008, randulo wrote:
>http://voipusersconference.org
>
>On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Al Baker <bwentdg at pipeline.com> wrote:
> > this is one very weak area for *. There is NO ANSWER.
>
>Hi,
>
>There have been a couple of threads on this subject this week, so I'd
>remind everyone that next Friday's VoIP Users Conference is about
>*large scale* asterisk:
>
>After many requests, we finally have someone to talk on large scale
>implementation of VoIP systems with asterisk. Using a farm of Asterisk
>and Digium cards, tens Of Thousands of simultaneous calls can be made
>and Mike Trest has offered to take it all apart for us to look inside.
>
>More about Mike Trest: http://www.mike.trest.com/
>
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