On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:04:45PM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote: > 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.
Those two thoughts tie into one another. You can make a CO switch into a PBX, but usually not the other way around. 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
