[Asterisk-Users] Conferencing with multiple servers

[Cesc]

In general, you are talking of distributed conferencing, which in SIP
it was tried once to standardize but never reached anything. It is
just not commercially popular, i guess.
Now, this doesn't mean that it cannot  be done or that it has not been
done ... but it is "propietary" implementations. And in my particular
knowledge, i know asterisk was not the choice.

Just my 2 cents.

Cesc

On 6/20/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick [mailto:asterisk-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:05 PM
> > To: asterisk-users at php-systems.com; Asterisk Users Mailing List -
> > Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Conferencing with multiple servers
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:22 +0100, Wildheart wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >    I am trying to join 2 asterisk servers together using a
> > sip channel.
> > > This is so, if a user joins a conference on box A and another user
> > > joins a conference on box B, providing they are in the same
> > conference
> > > room, the two conferences are joined via the sip channel.
> > We only want
> > > to join the conferences together if they have users in them and we
> > > don't want to point all the conferences to one server as we
> > would like
> > > to try to balance the load a bit.
>
> This is a general problem with the 'enterprise grade' aspects of Asterisk. As far as I know, there is no way to distribute applications (eg: Queue, Meetme etc) between multiple Asterisk systems. You really need to run the applications that will serve a common set of phones on the same Asterisk system, and then fail over to a secondary if necessary.
>
> Doug.
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