[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as PSTN gateway

[Alex Zeffertt]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:38:04 -0400
"Bill Hamlin" <whamlin at onnet1.com> wrote:

> I've been asked to recommend a solution for a one-E1-port PSTN gateway
> supporting SIP.  I've never set up a Cisco 5300 or equivalent, but I
> know they work.  I use the Asterisk software in a couple of places and
> would like to use the E100P.  My question is whether anyone out there
> has any installations using this and what their opinion is about it
> (does it work? how's the audio quality? and so on).

I'm testing Asterisk on a Dual Xeon (2.8G) PC, running Fedora Core 2,
and with a Quad T1/E1 card (TE410P).  So far I've tested it with 60
concurrent E1/ALAW to SIP/GSM call legs and it seems to breeze along. 
The audio quality is good.

A few months ago I tried doing a similar thing on a cisco 5350 and I had
no end of problems with their SIP implementation, with end to end
delays, *long* call setup delays, and call teardown failures.

Yes, I'm quite impressed with Asterisk.

Alex