[Asterisk-Users] Compiling while * is running

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

> Yes, Nortel Meridian's can get 5 9's easily.  They are very expensive,
> but we have one running at a government site in Indiana that has been up
> for 15 years without interruption.  When you upgrade the 1 control unit,
> the other 1 is servicing all the requests.  There is a brief period of
> time when you switch to the new one (like 4 seconds) where if you try to
> make a call, it won't go out, but any calls already in the system stay
> up...

Must be different from the Meridian system I have -- mind you it doesn't 
have hotswap controllers.  :-)  Mine's a mid-office one that's currently 
handling 40 phones and 12 trunk lines and it's more or less maxxed out.

Regards,
Andrew