[asterisk-users] The new ConfBridge application is now in Asterisk Trunk!

[David Backeberg]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:38 AM, David Vossel <dvossel at digium.com> wrote:
> I am proud to announce that after a good bit of development, community feedback, testing, and >code review, the brand new ConfBridge application has been officially merged into Asterisk >Trunk!!! http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=314598
>
> If you are already familiar with ConfBridge from Asterisk 1.6.X and 1.8, forget everything you >know.  This is a completely revamped, highly optimized, and feature rich conferencing >application capable of mixing sample rates from 8khz all the way up to 192khz!  Exciting right?!

So way back when the 'old' ConfBridge was announced, my understanding
was it was originally an internal Digium tool for exercising the
Bridge() code and it was decided to release it to the public in the
event the code might be useful to others. The old ConfBridge was
missing stuff that was in MeetMe(), and wasn't that compelling for my
particular usage.

This 'new' ConfBridge looks to be much more full-featured. So can
anybody explain the motivation for this? Is this a replacement for
MeetMe() where at a certain point we envision dropping MeetMe() from
the codebase?

Does ConfBridge() scale to many users as nicely as MeetMe? I'm
assuming the MeetMe ability to use a hardware source for timing will
still be superior with large user counts in rooms?