On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > Short version: There's some hope Asterisk could handle the programming, > but the switching fabric simply is *not* up to the task yet.
And I am not sure that kind of DSP density or CPU-bound framing and transcoding is even possible. At the very least, Asterisk would have to have a vast array of rather expensive ASIC cards developed around it that would offload a great deal of this functionality; the dedicated DSP support is a good start, but nowhere near where it needs to be. > And as a CO switch, you *must* switch TDM; VoIP isn't really an option. Yep. Asterisk is _NOT_ a switch. Asterisk is not a transit element. Asterisk is an *endpoint*. It makes for a nice PBX, feature server, etc. Kind of like the BroadSoft, but on a much smaller scale. > I hadn't been tracking oSS7 lately; didn't realize that. As far as I can tell, it's still pretty useless. There are a variety of commercial/proprietary SS7 solutions available, though, but I haven't tinkered. And in any case they don't strike me as being able to interface with Asterisk. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : +1-678-954-0670 Direct : +1-678-954-0671 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users