Comments on: Asterisk 1.6, Now with Distributed Presence

By: russell

russell — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:33:21 +0000

It is now possible to do this using XMPP, as well, which will be the best solution for doing this between remote servers. It was just merged into the development tree and will be a part of Asterisk 1.8 when it released later this year.

By: Debra

Debra — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:15:30 +0000

I’m managing a project for a customer to implement Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Pilot begins in late June. The customer is using the Asterisk solution for their VoIP (it’s a new implementation, pilot begins in early June). I am looking for documentation on how Asterisk publishes presence information for devices. We are looking to integrate OCS and Asterisk to display the user’s phone presence on OCS. Would you be able to offer any guidance/point me in the right direction? The Asterisk implementation is being done by another vendor and they have no experience in such an implementation so I haven’t been able to get anywhere with them.

Thanks!

By: Faisal

Faisal — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:24:27 +0000

Russel , Can we use this clustering for sharing device states across the data centers. Actually we have two data centers one in Newyork and other is in California and there is 100ms network delay between these two data centers.

By: russell

russell — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:18:08 +0000

Make sure to re-run the Asterisk configure script after installing a dependency. That is what determines if it is present or not.

By: Azan

Azan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:14:40 +0000

I’ve some problem with this, i’ve installed openais but when i “make menuselect” in asterisk directory i see XXX before res_ais. I tried alot to fix this issue but no luck. Please guide me to fix this.

By: russell

russell — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:07:25 +0000

I am not planning on doing a 1.4 backport. The changes are invasive enough that it’s not trivial.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:52:52 +0000

Russell, WIll this be back-ported into 1.4 at all?

By: Jim Pompilio

Jim Pompilio — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:42:47 +0000

I agree with what Teleweb and Eric Stone have said and believe that both XMPP and DUNDi are required. In order to compete effectively in the enterprise against Unified Communication Solutions the need for XMPP arises when you start talking presence/IM. SIP is not designed for this type of communication (see HTML or PDF of “On Helicopters and Submarines” here, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=966712.966726). XMPP however while best known as an IM tool (Jabber) is much more, and was designed specifically with the intent of securely routing context-sensitive data among a complex interconnection of nodes (see “XMPP transports presence data” here, http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2004/0308techupdate.html). DUNDi was created to handle that which SIP could not and publishes routes which are in turn accessed via IAX, SIP and H.323. I would say leave the IM functionality to XMPP and the telephony functionality to DUNDi. Great work Russell, keep up the great work.

By: canl

canl — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:32:01 +0000

Russel,

Your improvments with clustering are a real need for us . Thank you for working on this side.

Our main goal is to solve this : “how SIP session information could be transferred to a server in the case of a fault on another server” (was in one of your previous post).

We will gonna have a try and keep you informed.

Thanks for all the great work.

By: kelen

kelen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:22:45 +0000

still trying to discover