Hi Jan, thanks for listing the results of your comparison, but I'd like to note a few things that have changed: GnuGk has call failover since version 2.2.4 and since 2.2.3, you can use [FileIPAuth] to authenticate by IP number. I also see installations having 400-500 proxy calls on a regular Linux server and even more in routed mode. But beyond that, most users cluster servers, indeed. But GnuGk isn't perfect and maybe a few others on the list could share their experience comparing GnuGk to other commercial systems. Regards, Jan Jan Riedinger wrote: > Hello Jove, > > I evaluated gnugk two years ago. Thus, maybe my statements are not up to > date. And maybe I'm biased, because I have Mera Reseller agreement. > > However, two years ago gnugk was not carrier grade: > > I had performance problems, with mvts 1 you can handle more than 1000 - > 2000 with a standard PC. With gnugk I was able to handle under > FreeBSD with a two processor system at maximum 130 simultanous calls. > But I heard with Linux more than 300 were possible. > > gnugk had had no 2cd choice routing. If the first routing choice signals > "no circuit" there was no chance to reroute the call to a 2cd choice. > > It was decided by random, when the call duration in the CDRs were > rounded up and rounded down to the next integer number. > > It was not possible to restrict calls by using ip adresses. This was > indirectly possible anyway by using aliases (I dont remember exactly), > but you had the precondition that your customer didn't change the name > of his GW. This was a no go for me, because I couldnt make my routing > dependend on the configuration of my customer. > > Mera can do transcoding (e.g from g723 to g729). There are a lot of > option for call distribution if you have more than one supplier. > > I'm a fan of free software, but if you want to use gnugk as carrier with > a lot of E1 call capacity I dont think that gnugk is (at least was) a > good option. If you want to use it for a company proxy it is probably > good enough. > > However, there is strong trend for using SIP. Thus I'm currently > evaluating to use SER and maybe Asterisk or a Cisco for transcoding to > reduce licence fees. > > BR > Jan Riedinger > > > > > > Jove Blazevski schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > Can anybody please give some comparison between GnuGK and MERA Softswich > > (MVTS or MVTS II). Only for the h.323 part, MVTS supports SIP but that is > > not important in this case. > > > > I would really like to know how GNUGK stands with MVTS with high volume of > > calls. In addition, is MERA compatible with many h.323 devices like GnuGK > > is? > > > > Thank you very much. > > Jove -- Jan Willamowius, jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.gnugk.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________________ Posting: mailto:Openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=openh323gk-users Unsubscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openh323gk-users Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/
