[Fwd: Re: [Serusers] SER or OpenSER]

Chahn John Kim johnk at koreanet.us
Wed Jul 19 20:14:46 CEST 2006


Thank you all for your comments.

After having researched documents and history from both iptel and OpenSER,
I could not resist a feeling that iptel is somewhat lagging in their
intension to go forward with SER to the direction that it had headed to.

Naturally by huge changes in key members and contributors, may it lead to
changes in business and philosophy, as Daniel mentioned more factually.

We decided to switch to OpenSER while we are in testing phase and we have
two key questions that we'd like to here from the experts.

1. Is there any comtatibility issues out there between SER and OpenSER
   mixed infrastructure; due to differences in functionality between SER
   and OpenSER?

2. Hardware and OS question regarding OpenSER;
   Is there any known obstacles over Fedora Core;  2.6.12-1.1387_FC4smp
   SMP version running on dual Athlon 64?

Again, thank you all in advance.

John K.

> I will add few remarks related to project's policy and evolution.
>
> OpenSER is driven by a board with members from different companies which
> will ensure project's independence and survival when one company changes
> its interest in the public project. Also, the project has a clear
> roadmap, major changes being discussed on development mailing list.
> People leading the project are two of the five core developers of SER
> and four main contributors of SER.
>
> The release policy is guided by changes and it is about one major
> release every 6-8 months. This type of releasing allow easy migration
> from older version to new one, otherwise the administrators will have
> nightmares to update to totally new configuration and database structure
> - small steps guarantee better results when dealing with production
> environments.
>
> The contributions are accepted if they follow a recognized standard from
> IETF/ITU/ETSI or other standardization groups, or is general interesting
> feature. No company can stop it for private interest.
>
> In this way we are able to implement geographic distributed VoIP
> platforms with the latest OpenSER, have a significant number of database
> types supported as backend via the unixodbc module in the stable
> version, these and may others only from third party contributions. Other
> important scalability features added in about one year of OpenSER:
> number of location entries which can be managed by OpenSER compiled with
> default flags grew from about 4000 entries as it was when it forked from
> SER to about 120 000, and now this number scales linear with available
> memory (for 120000 online users, OpenSER uses about 40MB memory, while
> the old architecture required about 256MB). I am sure you can find more
> on project's web site ...
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
> On 07/16/06 13:06, Greger V. Teigre wrote:
>> Well, trying to be a bit objective:
>> 1. It depends on your needs
>> 2. OpenSER has a more aggressive release policy (more newer features),
>> meaning that openser contains more functions and modules than ser
>> 3. Latest SER is 0.9.x and is extremely stable
>> 4. Openser 0.9.x and ser 0.9.x are (almost) close to identical. From
>> 0.10 they start to diverge. SER 0.10 is not yet released, OpenSER has
>> reached 1.1
>> 5. The type of features/functionality included in SER and openser are
>> likely to be quite different
>> 6. OpenSER is currently better documented in the latest version
>>
>> Have a look at the onsip.org Getting Started guide for more detail on
>> history.
>> g-)
>>
>> Chahn John Kim wrote:
>>
>>> I am a SER starter.
>>> I have seen many subjects related to Openser.
>>>
>>> Can someone shed a light on what are the differences between these?
>>> And even some insights to suggest which may be better than the other?
>>>
>>> We are planing to start business service shortly and we appreciate any
>>> inputs on which SIP server infrastructure provides better performance
>>> and
>>> scalability.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>> John K.
>>>
>>>
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>


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Chahn John Kim
Koreanet.US
Tel:   847-564-0698
email: johnk at koreanet.us
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-- 
Chahn John Kim
Koreanet.US
Tel:   847-564-0698
email: johnk at koreanet.us
       johnk at netcomusa.us




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