[Asterisk-Users] Reasons why I shouldn't use Asterisk?

[hkirrc.patrick]

i m a newbie with * so in all likelihood my question will sound stupid 
to you but aren't there HA support for linux already?
as to the pstn interfaces, i thought most traditional PBX uses redundant 
equipment to provide HA;
can't we do the same with * being the switch?


WipeOut wrote:

> Gavin Hamill wrote:
>
>> It would seem an odd question, but I'm trying to put together a little
>> presentation on 'Why Asterisk?' and need to list Pros and Cons.... I've
>> got plenty of Pros (including the availability of commercial support),
>> but the only Con I can think of is 'Relatively few installations
>> worldwide'
>>
>> Can anyone think of any others?
>>  
>>
> No built in high availability or clustering options making it as 
> reliable as the harware, OS and apps..
>
> Last time I looked it up PC systems combined hardware components 
> average reliability was about 96% uptime(This was a while back so the 
> percentage may not be accurate).. This is a problem for telecom's 
> system whos uptime is usually measured in years and not a percentage 
> of 1 year..
>
> No flames please, I realise that there are issues involved with the 
> PSTN lines, channel banks and some other things in a clustered senario..
>
> Later..
>
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