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

[Michael Graves]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:00:56 -0700 (PDT), Vincent Li wrote:

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>On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Yehavi Bourvine wrote:
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>> Hello'
>>
>>  I am at the same situation as you. I also work at a university and we have
>> over 8.000 extensions on a Nortel PBX. I also run a small Asterisk pilot.
>>
>>  I am using a realtime users database and the main problem is that Aaterisk
>> does too mcuh database access to inquire for the currently registered users.
>> (I am using direct RTP path between the phones so this is not  a limiting
>> issue here).
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>>  I am checking now a combination of OpenSIPS and Asterisk, where OpenSIPS
>> will serve the phones and Asterisk the more complicate things (voicemail,
>> transcoding, etc.). OpenSIPS still lacks some of Asterisk features, but they
>> are being worked on.
>>
>>                            Regards, __Yehavi:
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>Hi Yehavi,
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>Could you please keep us informed with your research, That would be very 
>interesting case that all other Universities could study. There seems no 
>known large Asterisk deployment in University enviroment at this time.

There was at Sam Houston Stat University in Texas, but they have since
transitioned to a Cisco Call Manager system...essentially reversing
their earlier migration.

I gather that this decision was driven by changes in their staffing and
epecially the loss of key staff knowledgable in the ways of Asterisk. 

Michael
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