I've been asked by my company to setup a conferencing system to support up to 400 people on a conference calls, where all users will be dialling in frpm the PSTN. I am exploring using Asterisk meetme to do this. I have two questions in relation to this:-<div>
<br></div><div>For Meetme conferences is it better to have all participants to dial in via SIP provider terminating to Asterisk via SIP/IAX, or use something like the Digium TE420P cards connected to 16xE1's (I'm in Australia). Are there pro's and con's to each method.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For this number of users, should I be looking at multiple asterisk servers to distribute the load, or a single server (I have some Dual core Dell 2950 servers available). If its multiple, can you simply daisy chain conference participants across servers?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div>Sydney, Australia</div><div><br></div><div> </div>