Le Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:22:10 +0400, Chris Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
> 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 recommend not using Asterisk at all for this - it's H323 support isn't workable in the VoIP wholesale market. Asterisk is a good PBX but a terrible softswitch. You should go for either: 1) something like a mediant 2000 16 E1 (which will handle all the transcoding) + 1 nextone SBC for soft-switching. or 2) using a company like interroute who will do the interconnect and the teleport between TDM and VoIP for a relatively modest price. Once you're setup with VoIP, please get back to me directly to see which routes we could exchange - our switch is in London too :-) Cheers, Jean-Michel. -- Jean-Michel Hiver - YKOZ +262 (0)692 828 070 _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
