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

[Oguzhan Kayhan]

I am working in a university also , and nowadays, we are aking some tests
to start using asterisk in some areas of our campus. Because it costs a
lot more cheper than extending our PBX system.

It seems ok for us to make a hybrid system in the campus area which should
be about 1000 clients for the begining. Maybe in the future we can dump
our old ericsson and swtich to asterisk completely..who knows :)



> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li at gmail.com>
> 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.
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/071707-open-source-voip.html
> http://www.digium.com/en/company/casestudies/viewcasestudies/University-of-Pennsylvania
>
> Those links gets passed around every time this topic comes up.
>
> I don't know what metrics led to the conclusion of the project
> manager, nor the way things were configured in your particular pilot.
>
> Asterisk-1.6 has dramatically enhanced SIP handling compared to 1.4.
> It also has dramatically faster large-dialplan handling.
> You can read all about it in the files that come packaged with 1.6.
> It's possible (I would dare say likely) that the project manager is
> looking at old data, or that the pilot was done with old versions of
> asterisk.
>
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