<div> Yes. SER is a good way to do load balancing. The way you'd do it here would be to have SER as the edge device talking to your voip provider and then have it balance calls back to your asterisk instances using DNS SRV or a similar technology for the balancing.
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<div> As far as limiting inbound calls, if your provider doesn't do this for you, you'd want to do this at the SER level, returning congestion to your provider when the number of inbound calls exceed your predetermined limit.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt King</b> <<a href="mailto:m@orderlysoftware.com">m@orderlysoftware.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello,<br><br>OK some more information.<br><br>We've got a client who takes very large call spike when tickets go on
<br>sale. We're specing to handle 10,000 simultaneous calls. We're hoping<br>to use our VOIP provider to handle incoming calls from landlines, and to<br>route the calls out to our client's call centre. Our * boxes sit in the
<br>middle, coloed with the VOIP provider.<br><br>We can use SIP or IAX with the provider. It's been suggested that SIP<br>is the better choice, as it should allow the provider to route call<br>streams directly through to the call centre once they've been through
<br>our system (more details of what we're doing at <a href="http://www.orderlyq.com)">http://www.orderlyq.com)</a>.<br><br>Someone has suggested SER as a good way of doing the load balancing (<br><a href="http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=SIP+Express+Router">
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=SIP+Express+Router</a> ), but I<br>haven't used it before - anybody know how to get it to load balance?<br><br>Also, if we got 20,000 calls instead of the anticipated 10,000 calls,
<br>how would we drop the extra 10,000? We don't want to use up more of our<br>provider's lines than we can handle calls.<br><br>Please feel free to respond privately if you like.<br><br>Many thanks,<br><br> Matt.<br>_______________________________________________
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