[Asterisk-Users] Web Interface for adding new users

[Shoval Tom]

Jared, regarding your million minutes,
What is your internet connection (bandwidth, type, etc.)

Can someone gauge asterisk bandwidth consumption, and/or monitor it?
I think this is most crucial for a production system, as the world of VOIP
introduces us to a type of problem never encountered before in the telco
world - sound quality (has been most stable for the past decade or so, IMHO)
And sound quality is not only cause of hardware and software, but also cause
of bandwidth consumption.

In ALL of the production summaries posted in the last couple of days, no one
has mentioned that. I was starting to think that they are either home users
of Asterisk (nothing bad with that, its not my goal, is all)
Or guys who work for huge conglomerates that can spare the $$$ for separate 
VOIP segments or high-end QOS devices.

Think I'm way off?

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:42 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Web Interface for adding new users

Cool... more asterisk users in Utah.  (Maybe we should start a Utah
Asterisk Users Group?)  I've added some notes inline:

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:06, ProvoCityPower wrote:
> We are new to the Asterisk community and really appreciate
> the willingness you have to share knowledge and help one another. We
> are building one of the Nations first fiber to the home networks here
> in Provo and have selected Asterisk to test as our phone switch.
>  
> Newbie kinds of questions: 
>  
> Is there any web-based tool that would allow non-technical personnel
> to add new Telephone customers?
There are several that are in the beginning states of development, but I
haven't yet seen one that's completely finished.  It really wouldn't be
too hard to program one though, if all you needed was to just add
another extension.

>  
> Has anyone developed any database interfaces for billing data or
> Customer maintenance?
Same as the above answer... there are a few floating around (check out
the Astweb project on SourceForge, for instance).  

>  
> Is everyone comfortable that Asterisk is capable of delivering five
> 9s, primary residential, 911 functioning service?
Nope... Well, not unless you make redundant systems, etc, etc.  As much
as I rely on Asterisk, it's not yet stable enough.  (In case anyone
cares, I do more than a million minutes of VoIP calls a month through
Asterisk...)  If you're willing to invest some time and energy, you can
make your Asterisk *system* very reliable, but as for the Asterisk
software itself, it has a ways to go.

Jared Smith

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