[Asterisk-Users] OPENSER / SER and Asterisk

[Erick Perez]

While reading about how to maximize capabilities in asterisk i have
read about SER and OpenSER.

The sites do not explain to newbies (maybe that's on purpose) what are
the benefits of using those products tied with asterisk (or is SER an
asterisk replacement??)

Can someone give me an idea of what's the usage for open(ser) and asterisk?
is it for scalability?
should I run it in the same box as asterisk or separated?
does it add more functions to asterisk?
or is the main function to better handle SIP over firewalls (due to
SIP over TCP support)?

Thanks for the explanation.



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