On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:37:37AM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote: > The other issue is scale. A single Class 5 switch shelf can take many > DS3s, and even several OC-Xs.
Yeah. <phew> > Asterisk can take... what, a few T1s? Maybe? That's nice. And entirely > worthless. Someone is going to have to make it possible to take at least > a few DS3s in a PC before something like Asterisk + SpanDSP + whatever > can work as any kind of "softswitch." Short version: There's some hope Asterisk could handle the programming, but the switching fabric simply is *not* up to the task yet. And as a CO switch, you *must* switch TDM; VoIP isn't really an option. > And, as has been mentioned already, SS7 is the other big problem. And > OpenSS7 only supports--to the extent that it supports anything--ISUP at > this point. Again, nice, but by itself abysmally worthless; a modern > switch needs TCAP for LNP and LIDB and a whole host of other capabilities. I hadn't been tracking oSS7 lately; didn't realize that. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ --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
