SIP in higher education

["Abrams, Derek" <>]

Aaron:

The MeetMe service on * is intended for 6-way, but with good engineering
I suppose you could exceed that.

The best place for info is at:
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20cmd%20MeetMe

One SA said they get 'tunnel' at 8-9 users, and echo at 10+ using
ISDN/PRI. If it is a total SIP connection, I'm not sure we haven't
experimented with that just yet.

The links at the bottom of the VOIP-INFO page will give you better info
on dimensioning * as well as the MeetMe application including how to
limit users. 

The beauty of * is that since its Open Source you can re-engineer it to
your needs. And if you figure out how to improve on the MM or MM2 apps
I'm sure others would be ecstatic to want a copy.

Derek Abrams
Oregon State University


-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Solomon using FreeBSD 6.0 
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Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [sip.edu] SIP.edu Call Notes - 2/2

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:38:20AM -0500, Dennis Baron wrote:
> IP protocols. It was first used for voicemail
> service, and now also provides voicemail-to-email service and
> conference bridge service.

Hi Mark,

I have a question about the capacity of the conference bridge service of
Asterisk.  Did you have any idea how many people can join a session
concurrently?

In Taiwan, we are still surveying the "best" conference bridge we need,
but many users told us they couldn't wait, and Skype is an available
solution which supports conference calls for them, so they just gave up
SIP and adopted Skype as their VoIP solution.  
This really makes me sad.  :-(  

However, as I know, Skype only supports up to 5 people in a conference
call.  According to your experience, if you have any suggestion about
SIP solution for conference bridge, I shall appreciate very much. 
Certainly, a less expensive solution is preferred, because it won't be
appropriate for us to spend too much money on this single device when
the utilization rate is not high.

Sincerely,
Quincy
Feb. 10