[asterisk-users] asterisk as a softswitch

[Clayton Milos]

> Probably.
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> PaulH
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> On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 06:55 +0800, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
>> Can i use asterisk as a softswitch?

It is really a soft switch. Not a good one for high carrier class telco 
usage I'd say but just fine for office PBX replacement, which is what it was 
designed for. What it is missing AFAIK that a carrier class switch has to 
have is a SS7 stack. The world's TDM exchanges use SS7 to route calls and 
most carrier class soft switches can do SS7 over ip.

Here's a link that defines a soft switch according to the International 
Softswitch Consortium:
http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=softswitch&i=51659,00.asp

-Clay