[Asterisk-Dev] How many users can one Asterisk server support?

[Olle E. Johansson]

Steven Sokol wrote:
>>The question is
>>how do we link up these servers and allow any user come in on any servers?
>>
>>Have anyone tried this?
>>
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, Asterisk stores the registration information locally, rather
> than in some centrally located data store.  In order to use it the way you
> want, you either need to alter it to use a central registry, or assign
> customers to specific servers.
> 
> I think that this is one of the reasons that many SIP service providers use
> SER on the front end as the SIP proxy, and use Asterisk as a media gateway
> and media processing engine.
> 
> Anybody out there have a better answer?  I didn't scan the bug tracker for a
> patch that provides central registration.  There may be a patch that covers
> this issue.  I'll have to look.
MYSQL_FRIENDS store some registration data in a database, but not what is
needed to build a solution like the one you describe. There's been
discussions about it, but I've seen no code.

Use a SIP proxy as a front end, Asterisk as a back end is my advice.

/Olle