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Conferencing with multiple servers

In general, you are talking of distributed conferencing, which in SIP
it was tried once to standardize but never reached anything. It is
just not commercially popular, i guess.
Now, this doesn't mean that it cannot  be done or that it has not been
done ... but it is "propietary" implementations. And in my particular
knowledge, i know asterisk was not the choice.

Just my 2 cents.

Cesc

On 6/20/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang (at) oneeighty.com> wrote: 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick [mailto:asterisk-list (at) puzzled.xs4all.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Conferencing with multiple servers
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:22 +0100, Wildheart wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >    I am trying to join 2 asterisk servers together using a
> sip channel.
> > This is so, if a user joins a conference on box A and another user
> > joins a conference on box B, providing they are in the same
> conference
> > room, the two conferences are joined via the sip channel.
> We only want
> > to join the conferences together if they have users in them and we
> > don't want to point all the conferences to one server as we
> would like
> > to try to balance the load a bit.

This is a general problem with the 'enterprise grade' aspects of Asterisk. As far as I know, there is no way to distribute applications (eg: Queue, Meetme etc) between multiple Asterisk systems. You really need to run the applications that will serve a common set of phones on the same Asterisk system, and then fail over to a secondary if necessary.

Doug.
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