[Asterisk-Users] PRI concentrator

Michael Baird mike at tc3net.com
Thu Jan 13 14:33:15 MST 2005


Heh, yea a SWITCH. My Lucent TNT's will do it also, however nothing will
be as cheap as multiple asterisk boxes terminating the PRI's from the
PSTN I think.

Regards
MIKE

> Hey gang,
>  We currently have a class 3 switch (CSX) that..well..it sucks. It does
> terrible CDR writes, doesn't support LCR, the list goes on and on. We want
> to replace this with several asterisk boxes each running one or two 4 port
> PRI cards.
>  The problem is: I can plug in 20 PRI lines into the CSX (from PSTN) and
> have 1 come from CSX into asterisk. If 1 call comes in on each of the 20
> pris, the CSX concentrates them into 1 pri into asterisk. Thus I only need a
> single PRI card for asterisk box.
> 
>  If I want to completly replace the CSX, I would need several boxes with 1
> or 2 4 port cards. But that is a big waste of money when I can concentrate
> into less cables.
> 
>  Does anyone know of some piece of hardware (other than a carrier switch)
> that will do the same thing? Keeping our current switch doesn't cost
> anything except in terms of power consumption and physical space (its like
> 5U or 8U).
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 
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