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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 2009Slide2
How we got such a project ?
Challenges we faced during deployment as well as current
operations Technical
Environmental Communication 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 GoalsSlide3
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 and
affordable 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 ProfessionalsSlide4
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 Slide5
How we got such a project ?
It fell out of the sky !
Magic Island Technologies' services are provided to U.S. Military
and
Civilian
Contractors in Iraq
only.Magic Island Technologies awarded this project to Intuit Innovations. Slide6
Challenges
Technical
Environment
Communication
and Culture
The Asterisk and Nagios ProfessionalsSlide7
Challenges - Technical
Distribute the load
How to scale asterisk to handle 10’000
concurrent calls?
“Real-Time-Billing” and
l
east cost routing
Instable Satellite-LinksMaintain and Monitor
The Asterisk and Nagios ProfessionalsSlide8
Challenges - Technical
Distribute
Route / Process
Logic
The Asterisk and Nagios ProfessionalsSlide9
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
The Asterisk and Nagios ProfessionalsSlide10
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
The Asterisk and Nagios ProfessionalsSlide11
Challenges -
Communication and Culture
Bad communication links
English and its variations….
Very stressed-out clients
The Asterisk and Nagios ProfessionalsSlide12
Access to the system
Web-Based Phone
Wi-Fi phones
Normal IP-
DeskphonesSlide13
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 AfghanistanSlide14
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 at
Intuit Innovations can deliver such a project.
Thanks Bro! You can contact me anytime via:
E-Mail: daniel@intuitinnovations.comOffice phone +603 2035 5800MSN dkraehenbuehl@hotmail.comBlog: http://www.intuitinnovations.com/index-1_7.html