asterisk-project in baghdad, iraq for the dr. daniel krahenbuhl ceo intuit innovations sdn the...
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Asterisk-Project in Baghdad, Iraqfor the
Dr. Daniel Krahenbuhl CEO Intuit Innovations Sdn
The Asterisk and Nagios Professionals
Big Business Award 2009
How we got such a project ?
Challenges we faced during deployment as well as current operations
TechnicalEnvironmentalCommunication and Culture
What is the project all about?
How soldiers use and access the system?
What’s next?
About Intuit Innovations and me
The Asterisk and Nagios Professionals
Presentation Goals
What is the project all about?
U.S. Army wants to bring down the cost of its communication infrastructure for soldiers.
Soldiers need easy access to communication system andaffordable rates to call home
In the past soldiers had only access to AT&T phone center often miles away
Take some business from AT&T and make some money.
The Asterisk and Nagios Professionals
What is the project all about?
The systems are installed at the Victory Base Complex surrounding Baghdad's International Airport.
Soldiers in this bases have access to the system:
Camp Cropper, Camp Dublin,Camp Liberty, Sather Air Base, Camp Slayer,Camp Striker, Camp Victory,Logistics Base Seitz, Victory Fuel Point
How we got such a project ?
It fell out of the sky !
Magic Island Technologies' services are provided to U.S. Military andCivilian Contractors in Iraq only.
Magic Island Technologies awarded this project to Intuit Innovations.
Challenges
Technical
Environment
Communication and Culture
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Challenges - Technical
Distribute the load
How to scale asterisk to handle 10’000 concurrent calls?
“Real-Time-Billing” and least cost routing
Instable Satellite-Links
Maintain and Monitor
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Challenges - Technical
Write some custom LVS stuff to distribute load based on availability and least concurrent calls
Use Nagios to monitor all aspects of the system inclusive satellite links and automatically switch routes based on estimated call quality (MOS)
Write fast reliable billing module directly integrated into asterisk
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Challenges - Environment
It’s a war zone
Combat landing in a commercial air plane is no fun.
Infrastructure (Power, Connectivity)
Nights and day’s of slow remote SSH work
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Challenges - Communication and Culture
Bad communication links
English and its variations….
Very stressed-out clients
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Access to the system
Web-Based Phone
Wi-Fi phones Normal IP-Deskphones
Whats’s next
Try to deploy a installation based on OpenBTS to get rid of expensive Wi-Fi phones(we need old robust GSM phones)
Similar deployment in Afghanistan
Thanks
Thanks to Digium and all you guys out there making Asterisk possible..
Mike Spratt CTO and co-owner of Magic Island Technologies, who was always convinced that we atIntuit Innovations can deliver such a project.
Thanks Bro!
You can contact me anytime via:
E-Mail: [email protected] phone +603 2035 5800MSN [email protected]: http://www.intuitinnovations.com/index-1_7.html