[asterisk-users] Large Asterisk installarions (~10, 000 extensions), preferably at universities

[Alex Balashov]

Alex Balashov wrote:
> Yehavi Bourvine wrote:
> 
>> OK, but I still did not get a reply to my original question: Why using 
>> SIP registrar in front of Asterisk and not simply use bare Astersik? 
>> can't it handle the load? (remember - in my case it doesn't handle the 
>> RTP, only signalling). Can't it handle so much registrations? (I am 
>> using realtime DB, it is has any relevance).
> 
> My experience has shown that using a dedicated registrar for large 
> installs is more effective;  it doesn't tie up resources on the Asterisk 
> box with all those registration refreshes, for one.  A product built to 
> be a high-throughput standalone registrar will handle the concurrency 
> requirements and perform better.
> 

Some of this is just a general design principle, nothing specific to 
registration.  Once a VoIP platform gets to be big enough, a lot of the 
logical elements that go into it get centralised into distinct and 
dedicated components that are federated into a delivery platform.  It's 
no longer considered a good idea at that point to have one process 
perform many different functions that have varying concurrency and 
blocking implications.

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