Jared, regarding your million minutes, What is your internet connection (bandwidth, type, etc.)
Can someone gauge asterisk bandwidth consumption, and/or monitor it? I think this is most crucial for a production system, as the world of VOIP introduces us to a type of problem never encountered before in the telco world - sound quality (has been most stable for the past decade or so, IMHO) And sound quality is not only cause of hardware and software, but also cause of bandwidth consumption. In ALL of the production summaries posted in the last couple of days, no one has mentioned that. I was starting to think that they are either home users of Asterisk (nothing bad with that, its not my goal, is all) Or guys who work for huge conglomerates that can spare the $$$ for separate VOIP segments or high-end QOS devices. Think I'm way off? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jared Smith Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Web Interface for adding new users Cool... more asterisk users in Utah. (Maybe we should start a Utah Asterisk Users Group?) I've added some notes inline: On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:06, ProvoCityPower wrote: > We are new to the Asterisk community and really appreciate > the willingness you have to share knowledge and help one another. We > are building one of the Nations first fiber to the home networks here > in Provo and have selected Asterisk to test as our phone switch. > > Newbie kinds of questions: > > Is there any web-based tool that would allow non-technical personnel > to add new Telephone customers? There are several that are in the beginning states of development, but I haven't yet seen one that's completely finished. It really wouldn't be too hard to program one though, if all you needed was to just add another extension. > > Has anyone developed any database interfaces for billing data or > Customer maintenance? Same as the above answer... there are a few floating around (check out the Astweb project on SourceForge, for instance). > > Is everyone comfortable that Asterisk is capable of delivering five > 9s, primary residential, 911 functioning service? Nope... Well, not unless you make redundant systems, etc, etc. As much as I rely on Asterisk, it's not yet stable enough. (In case anyone cares, I do more than a million minutes of VoIP calls a month through Asterisk...) If you're willing to invest some time and energy, you can make your Asterisk *system* very reliable, but as for the Asterisk software itself, it has a ways to go. Jared Smith _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
