Sounds like something I was pondering before too. In theory with a little playing around you should be able to use 'bridging' conferences on the 'low' boxes to do this.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_conference#Syntax">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_conference#Syntax</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>From what I can tell, when the first user dials into a low, you can make it create a new conference call there while bridging in the top level one.</div><div><br></div><div>As you're writing in your own moderator controls, you're not going to have an issue with that, in theory you can query, mute and unmute over ESL or XML_RPC:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_conference#API_Reference">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_conference#API_Reference</a>
</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2012 16:59, Muhammad Shahzad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaheryarkh@googlemail.com" target="_blank">shaheryarkh@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>hummm, interesting, i was just wondering if it is possible to make a tree shape conferencing bridge which would work something like this.</div><div><br></div><div>1. We will have many freeswitch boxes, each will running a single conference of its own up to say 50 users. These freeswitch box may be geographically distributed as needed, (though it may cause significant latency).</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Then there is a freeswitch box running on top, all freeswitch boxes dial this top level freeswitch box as normal call. On top level freeswitch these calls will be answered and joined in a single so called top level conference. The second leg of this call will be joined to conference already running in lower level freeswitch boxes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3. The main speaker / teacher of this virtual class room will just dial to top level freeswitch and join in the top level conference..</div><div><br></div><div>4. For listeners / students of this virtual class to dial in and join, we can setup an OpenSIPs / Kamailio boxes which authenticates users first then forwards call to lower level freeswitch boxes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>5. All student calls will be mute when they join the conference. The teacher / speaker will have a web management interface which will query each lower freeswitch box and generate a participants list. Teacher will be able to unmute any student to listen to their questions etc. and then mute them again to answer the question etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What do you guys think? Please suggest.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Stephen Dame <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdame@207me.com" target="_blank">sdame@207me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I know a few commercial companies have scaled freeswitch to handle 250-500 callers in a single conference across boxes with direct audio cable connections in data center.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> I have an existing application that uses speex16(flash voip) and I can get 50 callers in a single conference before cpu gets to 70% on a c1.medium instance. I know I can throw more hardware at the problem, but interested in bridging the same conference number between multiple freeswitch instances and presenting single ESL notifications back to the existing application so all users events are seen.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This is a distance learning app, and not business audio conference, so some latency is tolerable. I would locate the multiple freeswitch servers in same zone and possibly use the new high I/O EBS instances running in SSD.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Any thoughts on this?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Stephen<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p>
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