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

[Steve Totaro]

I don't know what ever happened to the DS3 card that Digium was supposed 
to release. Maybe it was just for media hype or maybe the card had too 
many issues to be released. Maybe we will see it one day.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Digium+DS3000P

Thanks,
Steve

Alex Balashov wrote:
> The other issue is scale.  A single Class 5 switch shelf can take many 
> DS3s, and even several OC-Xs.
>
> Asterisk can take... what, a few T1s?  Maybe?  That's nice.  And entirely 
> worthless.  Someone is going to have to make it possible to take at least 
> a few DS3s in a PC before something like Asterisk + SpanDSP + whatever
> can work as any kind of "softswitch."
>
> And, as has been mentioned already, SS7 is the other big problem.  And 
> OpenSS7 only supports--to the extent that it supports anything--ISUP at 
> this point.  Again, nice, but by itself abysmally worthless;  a modern 
> switch needs TCAP for LNP and LIDB and a whole host of other capabilities.
>
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> Alex Balashov
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