Hello Brian!
The pleasure was mine. I'm glad that you made it, and hopefully your got your
name tag also! The problem is I don't know yet, of any T1 card that has been
designed for Solaris (yet). There was a developer who ported the Linux driver
for an X100P on Solaris x86 (I forget his name). But it sure would be
fantastic to have a Digium or Sangoma card working on Solaris x86, x64.
I had almost a 1 hr chat with Doug Vilim a while ago with regards to convincing
him to deploy their drivers for Solaris. It sounded to me they (Sangoma) is
not yet investing efforts & time on developing Solaris drivers, though I tried
to explain to Doug that the Solaris wave is out there & more end users &
businesses are using it. Sangoma needs to be ready, before Digium beats em to
it! Of course I have nothing against Digium, but the fact that Sangoma is
within 30 minutes drive from my place, has its advantages!
Don't get me wrong. I've used both Solaris & Linux. There are advantages &
disadvantages of both. It's really a matter of perspective, but at the end of
the day BOTH are wonderful & reliable OS.
Every time I use Asterisk & the more I use Asterisk, the more I want to run a
production Asterisk on Solaris. I've been told that Linux has certain
limitations eg: 400 simultaneous call limit on a server... where as Solaris
has the capability of more simultaneous calls. I work with only 3 Asterisk
servers on Linux, but every time I have to work on Solaris, I imagine that
Solaris & Asterisk marriage has much greater benefits to entrepreneurs & people
wishing to deploy & manage a large set of Asterisk servers for other business.
The virtualizing of servers running Asterisk, and within independent containers
has the potential to drastically reduce server administration. With the
virtualizing feature & running Solaris in separate containers provides the
flexibility to potentially deploy and provide x number of virtual Asterisk
servers in one physical server - connected to a SAN.
The best part, you can do so in minutes, vs a couple of hours. Yes, you can
definitely do the above on a Linux environment, but running x number of virtual
Asterisk servers on one physical Linux server to a SAN, comes back again to the
total limit of 400 simultaneous calls.
My understanding of the Asterisk-Solaris marriage & virtualization is all based
on theory - and I welcome anyone to correct me if my views are mistaken. Never
the less, I've learnt today, the capability of the new Sun chips & understood
the theoretical aspect of AMD 64 based chips in the same price range as the
Intel chips, performs better. The potentials are limitless, if Asterisk were
to use & harness the horse power!
Best,
Reza.
Doug Vilim
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Bae
To: Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Solaris OS, SUN & Oracle.
Hi Reza,
I'm Brian. I got to seminar and joined the session.
This seminar introduced new trend of Sun and Oracle, Solaris 10, Sun server
new platforms.
Server Consolidation technology will take the market much more, which is my
another interesting topic.
I would like to test Asterisk cards on Sun platforms.
Now, I am installing asterisk server and Dignum card TD400 on my pc. As to
new to telephone system, I'm trian and error and testing dial plan and
extentsion. I would like to share my testing experience.
I really apprecite for your arrangement for the seminar.
Thank you so much.
I look forward to seeing you soon in next TAUG meeting.
Regards,
Brian.
On 3/2/06, Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Seminar:
I'm just curious how many of you on my list made it today :). I was there
around 8:30 AM (missed breakfast) but later on grabbed some stuff to bite...
and came back home with more than I bargained for. I stayed till 1:00 PM all
the way through. My primary intention was networking with other users & the
speakers.
Would love to hear your thoughts, experiences & who made it.
Cheers!
Reza.
