[asterisk-users] Asterisk is not designed for University with large user base?

[Olle E. Johansson]

17 mar 2009 kl. 07.26 skrev zoachien at securax.org:

> Vincent Li wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just had a meeting about a pilot project going on in our  
>> University, The
>> project manager has done some research in the past year and  
>> concluded that
>> Asterisk can not scale well to large user base like 10,000 users,  
>> thus
>> Asterisk is not fit for large University environment.
>>
>>
> Asterisk can scale to 10.000 users. Its probably about the maximum you
> could do on a quite powerful server if you don't need TDM hardware,  
> but
> better would be to use a cluster, the database used would then
> eventually become the limit to the scaling.
> I have no experience with SipX so i can't say if it will scale better
> without clustering.
>
We've built several solutions for carriers and universities that  
scales to a very
large userbase. It's certainly possible, but needs good design and  
preparation,
but that applies to all projects with that many users, regardless if  
it's open source.

/O

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