Why not let asterisk be your PSTN GW? It is in our case, just throwing out my $0.02.
Most of the cases I can think of I can get around. The one I can't seem to figure out is 'Agents'. Agents will need to login/logout using 1 number. I can forward that number from SER to asterisk by looking for it, no biggie there. The problem lies in having 1 SER box and many * boxes. If Agent 1 logs in at Asterisk-1, and agent 2 logs in at Asterisk-4, and a call comes into the queue at Asterisk-3, what then? Can Asterisk-3 see that the 2 agents are loggedin? Asterisk boxes need to share states and that seems difficult to accomplish. -Matthew ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SER Interaction: Agents and Extensions > Matthew Boehm wrote: > > > With all of these caveats, it seems to me that a SER->Asterisk solution > >isn't that great. If anyone else out there can show me otherwise... > > > >Thanks, > >Matthew > > > > > > I think you might be missing the point here. SER is a raw SIP processor. > So for a second throw everything you know about Asterisk + SIP out the > window and go back to vanilla SIP. Getting used to a B2BUA in the call > path kinda beats some of the raw power of SIP up. Think of how a SIP URI > is formed. That domain portion is kinda like a context, right? > furthermore, SER can "do stuff" with that. > > I'm doing my own eval with SER for a very large deployment. But I'm just > getting started. I had SER running about a year ago, but it's been about > that long since I really toyed with it. > > One of the call flows I'm about to try is: > PSTN GW -> SER -> Asterisk "Transfer"/re-invite -> SER -> Phone > > The idea is that SER manages my PSTN gateway. I can always just stack > more Asterisk servers on, SER I'll never really need to expand (there is > a redundant SER Server, removing the need for clustering). Then the > call gets "sent" to asterisk for smart call processing, however actual > setup of the media gets resent back to SER. I'm not sure if I'll be able > to do this, but I may be able to do it with re-invites. Any thoughts? > -Brett > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users