Greetings list,

I've recently been approached by a traditional PSTN LCR provider who are trying 
to break into the VoIP market and set themselves up. They have good contacts 
with some of the large carriers here in the UK who are happy to install 
interconnects into the datacentre in which they have rackspace.

They're in a tricky position: they won't be generating anywhere near enough 
volume to justify one of the big Cisco gateways (or similar), but they will 
have sufficient volume to make PRI cards in asterisk servers rather inefficient.

Initially the main carrier offered to install 16 E1s as a starting point for 
them, but:
a) as their call volume increases, having lots of E1 ports and cables seems 
incredibly inefficient compared to an E3 or TDMoE.
b) I can't help but feel asterisk might not be the most appropriate solution 
for something of this scale

I'll be the first to admit I have no experience of carrier-level switching 
hardware and setups. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommended reading 
for setups such as this?

Regards,

Chris
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C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited
For full contact details visit http://www.minotaur.it
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