[Asterisk-Dev] Business Case for a DS3 Channel/Driver in AsteriskVoIP

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nathan Littlepage wrote:

> Personally I would detour from the TNT and like Lucent gear because it
> can only be used in a H323 setup. Lucent has pushed IPDC for this gear
> and until recently has offered SIP on it. SIP of course is not cheap. If
> I where to load a DS3 worth of calls I would depend on MGCP for my
> signaling protocol and use one of the Cisco 5400 series boxes from the
> gray market.
TNT does SIP now. It doesn't suck all that much (for TNT standards, 
anyway). As far as licensing, the 'grey market' vendors who sell TNT 
shelfcontrollers usually have all hashcodes enabled, including SIP.

> I have yet to see a vendor create a PCI DS3 card that supports full 672
> DSO's. SBE has a PMC format card that can support 672 DS0 HDLC data
> connections.
How much is it?