[Serusers] SER or OpenSER

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 07/19/06 21:14, Chahn John Kim wrote:
> 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?
>   

Both speak SIP so there should not be any interoperability issues. You
can chain either/both of them with any SIP compliant application or device.

> 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?
>   

Fedora and 64b are fine for OpenSER/SER.

Daniel

> 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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