[asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'

[Douglas Garstang]

Oh, and I see nufone caters to residential. We only cater to business customers, who's needs are a lot more demanding.
 
And you know what, maybe it won't scale, but the native dial plan couldn't handle the requirements at all. If central management (ie web site) is a requirement, then you have to use a database. As I said in my earlier post, the MySQL dial plan command couldn't handle nested queries.We can't be pushing confg files down to Asterisk and doing multiple reloads several times a minute just because Joe Smith wanted to findme/followme to his cellphone after his office phone, while Mart Bloggs is wanting to hange her external caller id.
 
We can upgrade the python agi script to a client-server based fast agi later on. Right now I'm the only person working on this stuff and I only have one pair of arms.
 
Doug.
 
 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Douglas Garstang 
	Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 9:58 PM 
	To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
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	Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'
	
	
	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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