List users,

It's been a while since I've posted here, but I've been hard at work pushing toward our large scale Asterisk goal and keeping up with this list can be a full time job by itself (I have19,543 unread list messages!!).

This Friday, September 16th 2005, my team will be at the MCI Development Lab in Richardson, Texas testing our setup. We have a three server system consisting of a Dell PowerEdge 6850 running Asterisk with the cdr_addon_mysql.so module, a Dell PowerEdge 1850 running AstManProxy and MySQL (our reporting server), and another Dell PowerEdge 1850 running software we developed for indexing and archiving our digital recordings. Our test setup has a second Asterisk server with a Digium quad-span card in it acting as a TDM-VoIP gateway. We are shooting for scalability, so the Asterisk server itself does no transcoding or DSP. We have noloaded all codecs except one and moved any of the resource-intensive activities to the gateway and the support servers.

Our production setup will replace the Asterisk TDM-VoIP gateway with a Cisco AS5400HPX Universal Gateway. MCI has an AS5400 waiting for us at the D-Lab, and while they are familiar with most aspects of it, they lack any experience configuring it as a SIP peer for Asterisk. If anyone has experience with this, please share it with me. Copies of your configuration files from the AS5400 and your Asterisk server would be appreciated, as well as any pointers to web resources. I'm personally inexperienced with the AS5400, so the more information you can provide the better. It is my fear that we will spend too much time configuring the AS5400 and miss out on an opportunity to push the limits of the scalability of our design. Ultimately, any advances we make in scaling Asterisk will be shared with the community.

Basic connectivity of the AS5400 is an initial goal, but we have a few DSP voice features that we need to configure:
   * G.168 Echo Cancellation
   * Jitter Buffering
   * Comfort Noise Generation
   * Disabling VAD/RTP Silence Suppression

Any relevant configurations from our current setup are after my signature. I'm sorry for the short notice (a conference call with MCI exposed the need for this message yesterday) and I will greatly appreciate any help you can offer.

Thank you,

Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer

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Portion of /etc/extensions.conf from the Asterisk Gateway

; Context for passing incoming calls from our T1s to the Asterisk Server
[incoming]
exten => _X.,1,NoOp("Inbound call for "${EXTEN}" from "${CALLERID})
exten => _X.,2,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED])
exten => _X.,3,Congestion
Portion of /etc/sip.conf from the Asterisk Gateway

; Sip peer for the Asterisk Server
[sip_server]
type=peer ; Only call to this proxy, don't receive calls from it
host=192.168.51.122             ; The IP of the SIP server
canreinvite=no ; Force the audio stream to remain on Asterisk dtmfmode=rfc2833 ; Use the RFC 2833 method of out-of-band DTMF
Portion of /etc/extensions.conf from the Asterisk Server

; Context for passing outgoing calls to the Asterisk Gateway
exten => _9X.,1,NoOp("Outbound call for "${EXTEN}" from "${CALLERID})
exten => _9X.,2,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:[EMAIL PROTECTED],60,tr) ; * removes the 9 and routes the call exten => _9X.,3,Congestion
Portion of /etc/sip.conf from the Asterisk Server

; Sip peer for the Asterisk Gateway
[sip_gateway]
type=peer ; Only call to this proxy, don't receive calls from it
host=192.168.51.121     ; The IP of the SIP gateway
canreinvite=no          ; Force the audio stream to remain on Asterisk
dtmfmode=rfc2833 ; Use the RFC 2833 method of out-of-band DTMF _______________________________________________
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