High availability. If you have multiple Asterisk systems, SER can really make failover a lot less painful.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Leif Madsen</b> <<a href="mailto:asterisk.leif.madsen@gmail.com">asterisk.leif.madsen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I simply bring it down to this:<br><br>Am I service provider? If yes, then I probably want to use SER for my
<br>registrations. If not (standalone PBX -- single company), SER may not<br>be necessary.<br><br>As for the media part of it, unless I'm delivering some sort of<br>"service" or require to listen to the media for some reason
<br>(monitoring for example), then I direct the call through Asterisk,<br>else, I direct media directly between end points and get out of the<br>way.<br><br>Of course, its never this simple, but I find thats a good way of
<br>thinking about whether you really need SER or not. I don't really<br>think a single company (unless its got a LOOOOOOOT of SIP phones)<br>probably really even needs SER.<br></blockquote></div>