[OpenSIPS-Users] Introducing OpenSIPS 2.4

Nuno Ferreira nferreira at fuze.com
Wed Nov 8 05:17:07 EST 2017


Hi Bogdan,

Do you have further details to share about the "*clustered media relays*"
and "*Asterisk flavored* Load-Balancing" features?

Thanks,

Nuno Ferreira

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <bogdan at opensips.org>
wrote:

> One more year, one more evolution cycle, one more OpenSIPS major release.
> So let me introduce you the upcoming OpenSIPS 2.4 .
>
> For the OpenSIPS 2.4 release we decided to focus on the *clustering
> abilities*. Today’s VoIP world is getting more and more dynamic, services
> are moving into Clouds and more and more flexibility is needed for the
> application to fully exploit such environments. But let’s pin point the
> main reasons for going for a clustered approach :
>
>    - scaling up with the processing/traffic load
>    - geographical distribution
>    - redundancy and High-Availability
>
> For the OpenSIPS 2.4 we laid down a roadmap that addresses the clustering
> both from the clustering engine itself (the underlayer) and from the
> functionalities that will perform on top of the clustering layer, to share
> data and state.
>
> With OpenSIPS 2.4, it will never be easier to built a consistent and
> powerful clustered solution:
>
>    - *clustering engine* – enhances the capabilities of controlling the
>    cluster topology, like re-routing for bypassing broken links, dynamic
>    joining of new nodes, support for multiple capabilities per node, data
>    syncing between nodes and many more;
>    - *distributed user location* – this is a very complex topic as it
>    exceeds the simple concept of data sharing. By the nature of the data (the
>    user registrations), you may have different constraints on how data is
>    roaming in a cluster – registrations may be tied to a node due NAT or TCP
>    constraints. Even more, a sharding aspect must be addressed when looking at
>    distributing the pinging effort across the cluster. So, multiple solutions
>    are viable here, depending on what is to be achieved (scaling, redundancy)
>    and what are the network constraints – see a detailed presentation
>    <https://www.opensips.org/Development/Design-Distributed-User-Location>
>    of the available solutions;
>    - *distributed presence server* – quite similar (but less complex) as
>    the distributed user location, a distributed presence server provides a
>    consistent, but distributed way of sharing presence information – SIP
>    entities may publish data via different nodes in the SIP cluster, while the
>    subscribers may fetch presence data via multiple various nodes. Two
>    approaches are under work : (a) a cluster built around a noSQL DB based as
>    primary data storage and (b) a cluster exclusively relying on OpenSIPS for
>    data sharing;
>    - *anycast support* – to be able to build a fully-flavored anycast
>    support (addressing both redundancy and balancing) requires OpenSIPS to
>    replicate/share transaction state across the nodes in the cluster (nodes
>    sharing the same anycast IP). Depending on the nature of the replication
>    (full transaction versus transaction meta-data) a full anycast and light
>    anycast support will be available – here is a detailed description on
>    the anycast
>    <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q6FuBcS_mippQl8ABa2DcrhxRDRHGthvHXe1SlMF6e4/edit?usp=sharing>
>    support;
>    - *clustered media relays* – as OpenSIPS has the ability to work
>    together with several flavors of media relays (such as RTPproxy, RTPEngine,
>    MediaProxy), the clustering support will help OpenSIPS do distributed
>    load-balancing over the relays – even if a relay is used by multiple nodes
>    in the cluster, all the nodes will share information on the load on the
>    relay, to avoid overloading or idle time;
>    - *distributed call center* – an agent is able to register with
>    multiple queues on different nodes on a cluster. Still, all the queues do
>    share the status / availability of the agent and its statistics for call
>    distribution;
>    - *custom clustering* – the OpenSIPS clustering underlayer provides at
>    script level the ability to broadcast (in the cloud) or send to a given
>    node a custom message/action (with replying possibility) – this is a very
>    flexible and powerful way to build your custom distributed functionality
>    directly at script level.
>
> And because we started on the integration path with OpenSIPS 2.3, and
> because we did it well, we decided to push forward on this path with the
> 2.4 version as well:
>
>    - more *Homer integration *to be able to report TCP statistics, DB
>    events and media relay events via HEP;
>    - *SIPREC integration* for standard call recording. The new SIPREC
>    module <http://www.opensips.org/Documentation/Tutorials-SIPREC-2-4>
>    provides a standard and transparent (for the call parties) way to do call
>    recording against an external recorder like Oreka
>    <http://oreka.sourceforge.net/> provided by Orecx
>    <http://www.orecx.com>;
>    - more *FreeSWITCH integration* in order to capture the call-events
>    (DTMFs, call status) from FreeSWITCH into OpenSIPS script or for being able
>    to control a FreeSWITCH call from OpenSIPS script via ESL
>    - *Asterisk flavored* Load-Balancing for a more realistic and accurate
>    traffic balancing over Asterisk clusters (as the load information is
>    fetched in realtime from Asterisk);
>
> ------------------------------
>
> The timeline for OpenSIPS 2.4 is:
>
>    - Beta Release – 12-16 March 2018
>    - Stable Release – 23-27 April 2018
>    - General Availability – 1st of May 2018, during OpenSIPS Summit 2018
>    <http://www.opensips.org/events/Summit-2018Amsterdam/>
>
> To talk more about the features of this new release, a public audio
> conference <https://www.uberconference.com/opensips> will be available on 21st
> of November 2017, 4 pm GMT
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Introducing+OpenSIPS+2.4&iso=20171121T18&p1=49&ah=1> , thanks to
> the kind sponsorship of UberConference <https://www.uberconference.com>.
> Anyone is welcome to join to find out more details or to ask questions
> about OpenSIPS <http://opensips.org/> 2.4 .
>
> This is a public and open conference, so no registration is needed, but if
> you want to announce your intention to participate, please let us know here:
>
>       http://blog.opensips.org/2017/11/01/introducing-opensips-2-4/
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
>   OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
>   http://www.opensips-solutions.com
>
>
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