[asterisk-users] what is softswitch

[Alex Balashov]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Anthony Francis wrote:

> IMHO asterisk is a softswitch, it may not be a very high capacity one 
> (right now) but it can be and if you don't mind splitting your physical 
> trunk calls over multiple machines it works very well as a call routing 
> engine, you just need to have carefully designed plans. It is far to 
> easy to create call routing loops, but if you don't know what you are 
> doing with a real telephony switch you can do the same.

   No SS7/ISUP support (and no TCAP, which is required for LNP and LIDB and 
traditional CNAM), poor/incomplete IMT support, can't take more than a few 
T1s per host - if that. No GR.303 support.

   To me that makes it essentially impotent for 99% of the purposes for 
which one would want a Real Softswitch(TM).

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