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September 22, 2010
Asterisk Users
Tags: asterisk, daisy chain, linux, microphone, multicast messages, paging system, RTP, software, system
I’m building a paging system composed of roughly 10 switches in daisy
chain, with an embedded box with a speaker and a microphone for each
switch. The embedded box runs my software.
I need the system to be resilient to any network partition, so that
anyone can send announces from any mic to all the reachable clients. I’d
need also to page a subset of all the speakers.
I’m currently using some software I wrote which sends voice over
multicast RTP and coordinates all the sites with multicast messages.
I don’t own the switches so each site will be assigned an address by
DHCP, that’s why I’m using multicast.
I heard of asterisk and SIP as a possible alternative to my software,
and I’d rather use tested and widely adopted software.
Is there a way asterisk could be of use, or would I need to bend it too
much?
Thank you in advance,
Matteo