# Choice of Conference Technology

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/choice-of-conference-technology/48211>\
**Category:** Asterisk General\
**Created:** [February 23, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/choice-of-conference-technology/48211 "2015-02-23T09:49:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![dixoncb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@dixoncb](https://community.asterisk.org/u/dixoncb)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/choice-of-conference-technology/48211/1 "2015-02-23T09:49:07Z")

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I started developing a conferencing application, specifically for conferences of 40-50 people, using Asterisk 10/AMI/Confbridge. I now want to use Asterisk 13 and ARI. The (Simple) bridge functionality looks perfectly adequate for my needs - I just want to know if it is a good idea to move away from Confbridge in this case. I can’t find any documentation containing recommendations for large-scale conference use cases.

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**Author:** ![malcolmd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/malcolmd/32/5_2.png) [@malcolmd](https://community.asterisk.org/u/malcolmd)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/choice-of-conference-technology/48211/2 "2015-02-23T16:45:56Z")

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The under-the hood technology isn’t different, it’s just whether or not you want the helpers and limitations of app\_confbridge. While app\_confbridge provides a great degree of functionality already, there are things it doesn’t do. To extend it, you’ll be diving down into the land of C programming.

Meanwhile, ARI provides the primitives you’d use to build something similar to app\_confbridge, in the language of your choosing.

Here’s one a couple of our interns wrote in ARI:

[github.com/asterisk/node-confbridge](https://github.com/asterisk/node-confbridge)

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**Author:** ![dixoncb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@dixoncb](https://community.asterisk.org/u/dixoncb)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/choice-of-conference-technology/48211/3 "2015-02-23T17:02:05Z")

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Thank you. Very grateful for this. And working with ARI is much, much more fun!

Regards