[asterisk-users] Sort of OT: PBX vs CO

[Alex Balashov]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Gordon Henderson wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Anthony Francis wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:37:37AM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
>>> And as a CO switch, you *must* switch TDM; VoIP isn't really an option.
>>>
>> Really?  http://www.pt.com/products/prod_segway_ntwksolution.html
>
> And BT's 21cn (21st Century Network) is touted as being entirely IP, and
> they're rolling it out to the whole of the UK in the next few years.
>
> They've already started with a few small towns and AIUI they're working
> their way through exchanges as I type... My exchange is scheduled to be
> converted in Q1 2010.

   This is all good and fine.  Even then, Asterisk simply won't do because 
of scalability limitations associated with it intrinsic programmatic 
characteristics as well as the hardware it runs on.

   It might be possible to glue something together with it and OpenSER and 
a media gateway control protocol like H.248 and a few of these SS7-IP 
appliances, but it would have all the ragtag qualities of Napoleon's army 
routed in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century.

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