How to load balance two or more Asterisk SIp servers?

Asterisk Asterisk SIP
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I am configuring a Asterisk SIP server. I am able to receive incoming and send outgoing calls. I am worried about more traffic or emergency situations. Please answer the following

  1. How can I configure two or more Asterisk SIP servers to load balance between them?
    1a) Right now I configure all users as userA@sipserver1addr.com . If I am load balancing how should I determine the next available asterisk SIP server ? Is there any existing framework or library or configuration available?
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You can use Opensips as a load balancer. It will act as a SIP proxy which sends calls to one of 2 asterisk boxes. If one fails, Opensips sends calls only to one which is alive. It works, but has disadvantages:

  • You have to install Opensips on other server, so You will need 3;
  • For asterisk Opensips is a one peer, so I couldn’t figure out how to make unique settings for every peer that send to Opensips, eg. different codecs order.
  • You have to make some tests;
    and others…but I use this solution and it works well without any issue for about 6 months.
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Thank you very much for answering.

  1. Is there any tutorials on how to set this up?
  2. How many maximum simultaneous calls it could handle?
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Yes, load balancing in Opensips is quite well described. I don’t know the number of exact calls, but now it’s about 3000 calls divided into 2 asterisk servers, 1500 per each of them.

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