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[Alex Balashov]

Alistair Cunningham wrote:

> Frankly, interest in connecting TDM trunks to Enswitch declines each 
> year, and almost all new customers are 100% SIP. Even older customers 
> are gradually replacing TDM with SIP.

Also, I agree with this stance.  There's nothing wrong with a pure-SIP 
service delivery platform;  Broadsoft is doing just fine.  :-)

Bringing the calls into Enswitch over a hard circuit depends on TDM 
support that - for all the evolution of the technology over the last few 
years - is still sometimes flaky, and limits the scalability, dynamic 
organisation and high availability of the platform.  Specifically, it 
ties call acceptance (and perhaps processing) to a particular host into 
which the circuit is plugged.

It is much wiser to use outside TDM->SIP gateways.  They are more 
robust, have lower mean time between failure, interoperate better, and 
allow the platform the fluidity of existing in a pure IP space.

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Alex Balashov - Principal
Evariste Systems
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