- By some guy at Digium
- Digium is what started the tech
9800 contributors to Asterisk
- Couldn't predict how it was going to be used
- Wasn't planned to be used in the cloud
- Asterisk was not planned to be used in some of the directions it is being used
- issues
- performance
- scalability
- extendability
- fault tolerance
- too many implementations to get new design architecture in!
- Asterisk Scalability Framework
- Asterisk SCF is a collection of parts rather than a monolithic whole
- Allows distribution across machines
- asterisk.org