[SR-Users] Kamailio as basic dispatcher for load balancing

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

for incoming calls, using uac module to register the phone numbers of
your users to providers is the solution that kamailio can do. However,
the users have to provide you the username and password to authenticate
to their providers, which is not good for security/privacy, but if
that's how it is supposed to work and the users agree, you have to deal
with it.

Then you can use dispatcher module to select any available asterisk
instance in your platform and route incoming calls to it.

Cheers,
Daniel

On 17.08.21 14:10, Philipp Trenz wrote:
> Hi Daniel, 
>
> I would be very grateful for your assessment and a little directional
> advice.
>
> Many thanks!
> Philipp
>
>> Am 11.08.2021 um 17:59 schrieb Philipp Trenz <mail at philipptrenz.de
>> <mailto:mail at philipptrenz.de>>:
>>
>> Hi Daniel, 
>>
>> thanks for your quick reply and your questions!
>>
>> What I‘m aiming for is a SaaS solution where users can build audio on
>> demand flows (like Podcasts, Audio Books, Audio guides etc.) via
>> phone. Currently, they bring their VoIP providers, which require
>> registering with username and password. I also wasn’t aware that
>> usually it works via trusted IPs, thanks for that hint. Already
>> learning a lot here!
>>
>> As our users usually want to have a local phone number to promote, I
>> think also in the future we will not go with blocks of numbers. But
>> as of now I cannot say for sure.
>>
>> I think outgoing will be a feature we want to provide later on, e.g.
>> to be connected to someone.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Philipp
>>
>>> On 11. Aug 2021, at 12:28, Daniel-Constantin Mierla
>>> <miconda at gmail.com <mailto:miconda at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> couple of questions to see where to guide you:
>>>
>>>   * are the VoIP providers requesting you to register to their SIP
>>> servers? The usual interconnect for a proxy like Kamailio is based
>>> on trusted IP addresses, saving roundtrips for traffic
>>> authentication using user/password. It is also easier to protect
>>> with firewalls and safer when employees leave the company (can't
>>> take IP with them, as opposite of knowing the user/pass).
>>>
>>>   * do you have a block of numbers and asterisk does a single
>>> registration to each provider, or right now the asterisk register
>>> all the numbers to providers?
>>>
>>>   * now you mention having incoming calls only, do you plan to
>>> support outgoing calls as well?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> On 11.08.21 11:50, Philipp Trenz wrote:
>>>> Hey there,
>>>>
>>>> I’m Philipp, an IT Systems Engineer from Potsdam, Germany and want
>>>> to deepen my knowledge in SIP communication on scale.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, my setup is quite simple: A single stateless Asterisk
>>>> instance, fully managed via ARI, which registers to multiple VoIP
>>>> providers, only processes incoming calls to play audio files (no
>>>> outgoing or conference calls).
>>>>
>>>> Now, with growing load on the single Asterisk instance, I would
>>>> like to have one or two Kamailio instances, which will balance the
>>>> load of incoming calls to multiple Asterisk instances. On which
>>>> Asterisk instance they end up is irrelevant for me, as the calls
>>>> can be processed on every instance.
>>>>
>>>> I looked into some Kamailio and Astricon conference speeches and
>>>> checked out some tutorials. But still I’m not quite sure where to
>>>> start. So here are some basic questions which would really help me
>>>> out to get going:
>>>>
>>>>   * As I don’t want to have registrations of all my Asterisk
>>>>     instances at the VoIP providers, I should use the UAC module to
>>>>     let Kamailio do the registering to the VoIP providers and
>>>>     register my Asterisk instances to Kamailio, right?
>>>>   * Will Kamailio automatically apply new outbound registrations
>>>>     when added to the database or do I have to trigger that manually?
>>>>   * Should I use one or two instances of Kamailio, how hard is it
>>>>     to configure them fail-safe?
>>>>   * For writing my first config file, should I start blank or from
>>>>     the standard config, what’s best practice?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance, looking forward to your replies!
>>>>
>>>> Philipp
>>>>
>>>>
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>
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