Comments on: A Talk In The Clouds: Asterisk on EC2 http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2009/02/a-talk-in-the-clouds/ End User Perspective On IP Telephony In The Home Office Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:16:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mjgraves http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2009/02/a-talk-in-the-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-1439 mjgraves Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:48:51 +0000 http://www.mgraves.org/voip/?p=3193#comment-1439 From all that I've read it seems as you describe, appropriate in circumstances where instant scalability is imperative. To me that implies a sort of niche position, but possibly an important one. It's very interesting to see folks like Nir Simionovich taking it beyond the theoretical, or simple test case, and actually ramping it up with significant call volumes. From all that I’ve read it seems as you describe, appropriate in circumstances where instant scalability is imperative. To me that implies a sort of niche position, but possibly an important one. It’s very interesting to see folks like Nir Simionovich taking it beyond the theoretical, or simple test case, and actually ramping it up with significant call volumes.

]]> By: John Todd http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2009/02/a-talk-in-the-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-1438 John Todd Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:30:33 +0000 http://www.mgraves.org/voip/?p=3193#comment-1438 Indeed, it does seem to be gaining momentum. The Twilio platform is rumored to operate on EC2 and Asterisk. Anyone seeking an infrastructure that can rapidly grow and shrink depending on demand: EC2 seems to be the right thing. This is great for people doing advertising, inbound or outbound call centers that are "bursty" (like for political campaigns), any kind of app that gets big spikes of traffic. Now, if we could get a few SIP trunking providers to do a deal with Amazon to offer private interconnects and zero-cost bandwidth, that would be even more interesting, and it would remove some burden from Amazon's network as well by eliminating that transit traffic... JT Indeed, it does seem to be gaining momentum. The Twilio platform is rumored to operate on EC2 and Asterisk. Anyone seeking an infrastructure that can rapidly grow and shrink depending on demand: EC2 seems to be the right thing. This is great for people doing advertising, inbound or outbound call centers that are “bursty” (like for political campaigns), any kind of app that gets big spikes of traffic.

Now, if we could get a few SIP trunking providers to do a deal with Amazon to offer private interconnects and zero-cost bandwidth, that would be even more interesting, and it would remove some burden from Amazon’s network as well by eliminating that transit traffic…

JT

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