Malaysian Asterisk User Group

our Sponsors from Intuit Innovation Sdn Bhd are conducting a first online-workshop via WebEx about building a Asterisk-Cluster.

This first workshop focuses on a Active-Passive setup.
(The next workshop will cover a large Active-Active setup with multiple Asterisk, DB and Load Balance servers.)

Details:

Date/Time: Thursday, 04. June 2009 at 8 AM, GMT +8 (Kuala Lumpur Time… )

Duration: 1.5 hours (depends on how many questions we have..)

max 25 People

Topics covered:

- How to choose your hardware (Servers and PSTN equipment, we will use a FoneBridge from Redfone)
- How to prepare your OS for cluster (we use Debian 5 in the workshop)
- Asterisk standard vanilla installation (we will use our install script)
- Explain the concept of DRBD and Heartbeat
- Configure DRBD and Heartbeat
- Test the cluster
- Discussion

Cost: FOC (you can buy me a beer if you are in Kuala Lumpur)

Please e-mail Daniel or Marco if you want to join the seminar and they will send you the meeting-invite!

Marco: marco (at) intuitinnovations (dot) com
Daniel: daniel (at) intuitinnovations (dot) com

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Dear All,

we are happy to annunce our first MAUG Out Event this Year

MAUG users will meet at 22. April from 6.30 PM t0 9PM

at: MSC Malaysia Cybercentre - Incubation Centre (1B - 3-1), KL Central

some snacks will be provided

we will do have a Presentation from either Dr. Daniel or Mark Warren (CEO from Redfone) who will join us via video or Audio conference.

maybe we can even manage to get Mark Spencer for a quick heads up into a teleconference….

if you would like to be a speaker please let us know

We will also feature a Lucky Draw with some cool prices to win from Digium and Maug.

cheers

marco

MAUG: Mark, Thank you for taking off some time of your busy schedule to answer some of our questions. So how has Asterisk been growing in the market place over last year

Mark: It has been growing in a variety of markets, especially we have heard more recently of enterprise applications, and especially outside the United States.

MAUG: What’s your strategy to break beyond the mid-market companies into  Enterprise market

Mark: This is largely happening naturally.  Enterprises are self-selecting to want to run Asterisk, and we are working on determining which products are the most important to offer to them, as well as how to adapt our existing products and services to meet the needs of Enterprises as well.

MAUG: What do you think are the top two reasons why more people don’t adopt open source solutions

Mark: I think there is still a perception (enforced by the established players of course) that open source means there is no support available.  Digium through its partners leverages the open source development and marketing models to supply a product to enterprises which can meet their needs more flexibly than traditional solutions while offering a level of support and independence that is not available from proprietary vendors.

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Heya Maugers,

Dr. Daniel from Intuit Innovation Sdn Bhd has released a very cool tutorial on how to load balance Asterisk using Ultramonkey to create High End Enterprise Ultra Scalable Asterisk Solutions… what a loooong word.

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I wrote a small Tutorial on how to load balance Asterisk servers. The tutorial takes care of the load balancing with UltraMonkey but does not touch ARA (Asterisk Real Time Architecture).

We deployed such systems many times for large setups with multiple Asterisk Gateway servers.

This is a one of our standard setups:

This solution works like a charm and we can avoid to use openSER. The Tutorial is based on Debian 4 R5 systems. What we believe is the best OS for Asterisk anyway… smile

Here you can download the tutorial: asteriskultramonkey.pdf

Cheers
Daniel / Intuit Innovation

Daniels Blog:  www.danielaliaman/blog

Heya All Maugers,

it has been a bit quiet from our side but this is because we are working hard to get you new and good content

coming up soon:

Interview with Mark Spencer from Digium

Interview with Philippe Lindheimer from FreePBX

Interview with Dr. Daniel Ali Aman form Intuit Innovation

and many more…. so keep tuned in!!!!!!

also we do have soon our first MAUG Meeting coming up together with our friends from www.foss.org.my

cheers

marco

Source: Digium Blog

We are pleased to announce a major new release of the Digium G.729 codec module for Asterisk. This release incorporates a number of changes, and in addition, includes a new performance testing tool which will make it easier for users to choose the best ‘flavor’ of the module for the particular system they are installing it on.

Clickl here for the full article at Digium Blog

cheers

marco

Hi Maug’ers, we are here together with Mr. Oliver Wittig, he is the Vice President EMEA for SNOM Technologies AG the Manufacturer of SNOM IP-Phones.

Oliver thank you for taking the time of your busy schedule

Oliver Wittig - VP Sales EMEA, Snom Technologies AG

MAUG: Oliver thank you for taking the time of your busy schedule please Tell us a little about SNOM and how it all Started?

Oliver: snom technology AG develops and manufactures Voice-over-IP telephones and other related equipment based on the IETF open standard SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). SNOM’s product lines include secure, feature-rich SIP telephones engineered for small and medium-sized business, ISP (Internet Service Provider) and VoIP carrier markets, OEM customers, home office and consumer applications. With its current Headquarter based in Berlin, Germany, snom’s global sales network extends to over 40 countries.

MAUG: SNOM is well know in Europe of course how about in other markets?

Oliver: Asia is still a newer market to us so the branding is still on the weaker side. In the US, Africa, Middle East, Australia snom is loved as much as in Europe and has increasing popularity.

MAUG: What about the Asian Market? We are flooded by cheap China Made IP Phones that cost less than 50 USD. How do you think will SNOM be able to position itself to gain some market share in Asia?

Oliver: We think that is a matter of perspective since a 50USD phones is not really cheap if you add all the trouble shooting and integration costs that come alongside a project. Quite a few big projects rejected a lot of Asian imports after not getting it them to fully run in the earlier days. Still China made Phones are getting more competitive and the quality is improving. In the early days phones wouldn’t even register.

Customer Expectations regarding the features a business VoIP phone should have has grown over the past years. IP-phones that just provide a minimum service level or features are frowned upon. Regarding characteristics like stability and quality, snom has been certainly one of the most versatile phone producers in the market and continues to be. One example is the snom OCS edition. Snom offers the only SIP standard phone which can combine SIP high level features with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Unified communication solutions, this is truly unique in the world.

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Hello Maug’ers,

were proud to Announce that the Asterconference 2009 will be in conjunction with the Communicasia 2009 in Singapore

There will be a Digium Pavillion and of course we have our Guest Speaker Mr Mark Spencer of Digium back in Asia, wow he must like it here

we will update you on all the news we can get about the upcoming conference and of course we will be on site to bring you all the fantastic new, Interviews and lots of more content

cheers

marco

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