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

[Stephen Bosch]

Alex Balashov wrote:
> 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.

Or doing the Hungarian Grand Prix on a John Deere.

-Stephen-