[asterisk-biz] SIP to PSTN Hardware

[Steve Totaro]

Alistair Cunningham wrote:
> Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for the info... what models of 3rd party H323 <-> SIP gateways do  
>> you know which can handle call volumes in the order of 10-20 E1s?
>>     
>
> I'm afraid I don't know of any. Everyone I know of with this volume uses 
> SIP or TDM.
>
>   
>> I think H323 isn't used more simply because Asterisk is terrible for H323  
>> :=)
>>     
>
> I think it's also a dying protocol. SIP is so much easier to debug and 
> do things like load balancing using SER that there's no call for H.323 
> on new installations. There's plenty of legacy H.323 out there, but 
> declining over time.
>
>
> Alistair Cunningham
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>
>   

I played with this briefly but never actually used not to mention 
getting it to work.  Maybe it is worth something.

http://www.cti.at2.com/documents/h.323_connex_guide.pdf

I can get time limited eval codes if you want to try it.  Probably 
pretty expensive for the licenses but might be worth it for your 
application.

Thanks,
Steve