[Asterisk-Users] SER + Asterisk

[Marconi Rivello]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:32:40 +0000 (GMT), Begumisa Gerald M
<beg_g at eahd.or.ug> wrote:
> What I understand is that Asterisk is a kind of "middle man" who wants
> everything to go through "him" :-) I.e Asterisk cannot work as a SIP proxy
> As far as I know, it doesn't do stateless forwarding as SER does so you
> can simulate the "forward()"ing that SER does in Asterisk except that in
> the case of Asterisk, it hasn't quite "let go" of the call, the voice and
> everything are still passing through it over to the other side where the
> call was forwarded (Dial()ed to be exact) to.

Doesn't the canreinvite=yes solve this issue?

> 
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+SIP+not-proxy
> 
> I guess also the scalability issues for SIP-only cases is something that
> I've read about too, especially when stateless forwarding is used (in
> SER).  Asterisk has many more features than SER e.g interfacing PSTN
> hardware, more advanced Voicemail etc... so, I would think that usually
> people who want to run "multi-featured, full PSTN interoperability and
> highly scalable networks" use Asterisk + SER.
> 
> Hope that explains abit.
> 
> Rgds,
> Gerald.

Thank you for your help.
Marconi.