[asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'

[Douglas Garstang]

You think 3 contexts, serving hundreds of companies is going to handle internal cid, external cid, cid override, pic codes, rate centers, incoming and outgoing black lists and white lists, findme/follow me with caller id based routing, transferring and forwarding between multiple hosts in a cluster.... and so on while ALSO letting customers maintain all this via a web interface?
 
Even the MySQL dial plan command couldn't handle the findme/followme because it couldn't save the state of the query used to retrieve the next number from the findme/followme list and then perform further nested queries to do blacklist/white list, pic code lookups, rate center lookups on each number.
 
We have several layers of organisationl units, and when person A calls person B, and both are in the same company, we use an internal cid. If person A and person B are in different companies, we use an external cid, and if the caller uses a star code, we use an external cid. We had to get the only Gold Rated MySQL consultants to help us design this damn thing. That's just a taste of the complexity.
 
Now, let the customer manage all this via a web interface and THREE contexts in a flat file isn't quite going to handle it. I also find your assumption that I'm an idiot pretty offensive.
 
Doug.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Jeremy McNamara [mailto:jj at nufone.net] 
	Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 5:32 PM 
	To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
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	Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'
	
	

	Douglas Garstang wrote:
	We have a 2000+ line python script that handles all call routing logic.
	
	
	You expect that to scale?
	
	I do call routing in 3 contexts with ~maybe~ a dozen extension each -
	and we have many thousands of customers and more than hundreds of
	companies using our Asterisk systems as a hosted solution.
	
	I really think you need to totally re-think your operation - and no, I'm
	not going to explain it to you, so don't even ask.
	
	
	
	Jeremy McNamara
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