Re[2]: [Serusers] SER + Prepaid with Radius AAA.

Hello Shafraz, I'm able to reach ~ 200 concurrent calls with RTP proxied on such hardware: Dell 860, Xeon 3060, 2G RAM Freebsd 6.2, Asterisk 1.4 If you will use SER dispatcher module you can add virtually unlimited amount of *B2BUA machines. Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:55:46 AM, you wrote: ST> ST> ST> ST> ST> Hello All, ST> ST>   ST> ST> Thank you for the replies again. I would like to know, in case I ST> decide to go with Asterisk B2BUA, how would the performance, ST> stability be? and most importantly, how would the scalability be? ST> I’m not planning to route media via the *box, in that case, how ST> many simultaneous calls would I be able to get considering my hardware is of high spec. ST> ST>   ST> ST> Also, I would like to know, has anyone tried using Yate for such ST> a scenario? Perhaps as a B2BUA, or Standonle with or without SER to do prepaid? ST> ST>   ST> ST> Regards ST> ST> ST> Shaf. ST> ST> ST> ST> ST> ST> From: sip [mailto:sip@arcdiv.com] ST> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:08 PM ST> To: Shafraz Thawfeek; serusers(a)lists.iptel.org ST> Cc: serusers(a)iptel.org ST> Subject: Re: [Serusers] SER + Prepaid with Radius AAA. ST> ST> ST> ST>   ST> ST> You are correct. There are several workarounds for this, but for ST> the most part, what you need is some sort of B2BUA functionality.  ST> Essentially, the call needs to go through a UAS that DOES keep ST> track.  The new SEMS is supposed to have some of this ST> functionality, although I don't know much about it.  Some people ST> use Asterisk (with Asterisk B2BUA).  We ended up writing our own ST> Asterisk B2BUA as the Asterisk B2BUA code from sourceforge had ST> things in it we neither wanted nor used and their patches never ST> seem to be up to date on the later versions of Asterisk (current ST> code out there works in a guaranteed way only for Asterisk 1.2.1, ST> though it wasn't until after 1.2.9.1 that we had to seriously ST> rewrite the patch). The sourceforge code works, though, for ST> earlier versions of Asterisk, and is an excellent starting place ST> if you've little desire to write the whole thing yourself. ST> ST> The concept of using Asterisk is pretty simple:  call gets ST> forwarded from SER to an Asterisk AGI program (C, Perl, etc) that ST> does all the magic.  The easiest way is to do a balance check when ST> the call comes in to determine the cost of the outgoing call and ST> check how much time a person has left on the call based on how ST> much money is in their account. Then, just set up an Asterisk Dial ST> command with the appropriate timeout and let the server take care ST> of the rest.  There are tricks to this, of course. Unless you're ST> somehow updating call credit and call timeout on the fly, you'll ST> need to limit the incoming calls to one at a time for each ST> account, or it's easy for someone to call with multiple phones and rob you of cash. ST> ST> N. ST> ST> ST> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:27:27 +0530, Shafraz Thawfeek wrote ST> ST> ST> ST> ST> -- Mike Tkachuk