[Freeswitch-users] Joining several FS servers in different regions

[Oivvio Polite]

On ons, feb 24, 2016 at 04:49:01 +0100, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
> You can use mod_xml_curl for this. Every time FS receives a REGISTER
> message from the user, it would retrieve a piece of XML from your
> application HTTP service. As these requests need to be answered quite
> quickly, you would rather install the HTTP server in the same location
> as FreeSWITCH. Also keep in mind that every call to "user_data"
> function would trigger an extra HTTP request for the user's XML. The
> function is quite convenient if you want to get some user-specific
> parameters from the directory.
> 
> Then it's up to you how you synchronize the back-end databases.
> Probably something like https://ipfs.io/  would help.
> 
> 
> 
> Each successful registration generates an event (if I'm not mistaken),
> and an entry in FreeSWITCH's own database. So, you should be able to
> retrieve the IP address of the FreeSWITCH server where the user got
> registered.
> 
> Alternatively, you may have one Kamailio cluster in one location of
> the world, acting as a SIP registrar. A 250ms round-trip delay is not
> so critical for SIP traffic.
> 
> Alternatively, you can have one FreeSWITCH cluster acting as a SIP
> registrar and call routing engine in media pass-through mode. Then few
> other FreeSWITCH servers would work as media gateways in different
> regions.
> 
> 
> 
> This needs testing. I would expect that global VoIP carriers like
> Voxbone have better control on their bandwidth and transport networks.
> 

Thanks Stanislav for your suggestions. I think the idea with a Kamailio
cluster (or in my case a single box) might be a good fit for my
scenario. I'll go read up on that.

regards Oivvio