[Asterisk-Dev] Is there a need for a DS3 channel/driver?

Peter Svensson psvasterisk at psv.nu
Sat Nov 20 01:58:02 MST 2004


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Mike M wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:50:45AM +0200, Maxim Litnitsky wrote:
> > If DS3 is not a need and SS7 is a need, why not  Race Vanderdecken 
> > spend some days and make a brake-through in SS7 support in Asterisk?
> 
> Refer to earlier comments in this thread regarding slip/underrun.
> It is not advisable to expend effort on SS7 in Asterisk if T1s are not
> bullet-proof reliable. SS7 networks do not tolerate link bounces
> from a T7 MTP2 timer expiry due to lost information from not
> being able to keep data supplied to a link DS0.

Has anyone tried running a TE405P or similar under Linux 2.6 with the 
realtime preemption patch added? That code is not ready for production use 
yet, but it would be interesting to know if the frame underruns are 
eleminated. From the number that have been reported it seems like it could 
do the trich with quite a wide margin.

Peter





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