[asterisk-users] When does Scalability requests Asterisk to U se SER ?

[burke at tailorhosting.com]

> Benjamin Jacob wrote:
>> Rushowr wrote:
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>>> Marco Mouta wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm planing to develop a solution based on Asterisk for about 300
>>>> users.
>>>> My question now is, do I really need to use openSER as the sip proxy
>>>> and
>>>> Asterisk for the PBX functions?
>>>>
>>>> Can i trust in a solution only with Asterisk to make all this install?
>>>>
>>>> Please help me with your experience on this kind of asterisk
>>>> solutions.
>>>>
>>>> I've googled and read about asterisk at large scale solutions, but
>>>> still
>>>> in doubt.
>>>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+at+large
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Com os melhores cumprimentos,
>>>>
>>>> Marco Mouta
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>>> In my experience, yes you can use *just* asterisk for the
>>> implementation
>>> of a large scale setup, you just better be sure you've planned it out
>>> well. I've set up a few large scale Asterisk implementations, covering
>>> more than 1K users on a single box. And that was in 2005 using trunk.
>>> There were problems, but all in all it was (and is, for the former
>>> client) not a bad implementation. If you're just looking at a large PBX
>>> install, you're definitely fine with a well planned system.
>>>
>>> Just my $0.02, not to be taken as a guarantee ;-)
>>>
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>> You mean, 1 K simultaneous calls? or 1 K registered users(yes yes. this
>> is the one!!)???
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>
> Sorry, should have been a little more specific. I've had Asterisk
> running realtime SIP users/peers and realtime sql calls from the
> dialplan (all with MySQL), and have had around 2.5k registered users and
> a peak (that I recall) of around 500 concurrent calls.
>
> --
> S McGowan
> VoIP Consultant
> rushowr at phreaker.net
>

Can you explain your design in a little more detail? What kind of hardware
did you use to get over 1k users on a single box and 500 concurrent calls?
Sounds like a very interesting medium-large scale implementation that
others could learn from.

thanks,
Ryan