[Asterisk-Users] Hardware to build an Enterprise AsteriskUniversal Gateway

Rich Adamson radamson at routers.com
Sun Jan 4 10:10:47 MST 2004


> I would set the "Enterprise Class" bar at five 9's reliability
> (about 5.25 minutes per year of down time) the same
> as a Class 4/5 phone switch. This would require redundant
> design considerations in both hardware and software.
> 
> In our network, Linux is approaching
> "Enterprise Class" and I don't see why *
> could not achieve this in the near future.

Linux might approach that, but * as an application won't in its present
design for lots of reasons that have already been discussed. I'd be
reasonable certain (you're right) it will head that direction, it just 
happens to not be there today. On the surface, I've not heard of
anyone that is actually addressing it either.





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